Why isnt this a feature of PhotoAI yet?
I made a task for my team to look into this and hopefully we can get a fix soon.
For now, a solution would be to convert the image to color, process it in Topaz Photo AI with color, then take the output file and convert it back to B&W.
Let me know if that workaround is functioning for you.
No. I mean why isn’t there a feature to colorize b&w photos. Seems like a strange feature to omit from an app whose purpose is photo enhancement etc
Maybe because there are already other apps that do this, as well as websites that will do it for you online for free?
That reasoning is absolutely stupid. Sorry for being honest. Because reasoning like that means the entire app shouldn’t exist.
If it’s so general as you claim. Even more of a reason it should be a feature for a full priced comprehensive product whose purpose is photo ai.
That would depend on how many people Topaz has working on the app and what additional resources it would take to add colorization. The fact there there are companies with apps and websites that do nothing but colorization makes me think that it would be better done by pairing Photo AI with something that already does it.
On the Video AI side where I spend most of my time, I’m endlessly seeing people asking Topaz to add features that would, if implemented, turn TVAI into a clone of Davinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere Pro that would either end up costing 3X what the app is priced at now or worse, would make Topaz a competitor/takeover target for one of the big gun SW companies.
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If you have a pixel editor such as PS, Affinity Photo Gimp etc., it has always been easy using solid color layers, masking and desaturate the original then use blend mode of Color
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I was wondering if you have ever thought about adding features for colorizing a B&W photo?
Hi Douglas.
This Topic has already been suggested before did you remember search the Forum before posting
Here’s the link to that original post please place your vote there
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Hey there!
I thought about a thing that completely falls under the photo AI stuff: photo colorization.
Load a black and white photo, do some magic, and show a realistic color photo.
Yes, that kind of stuff already exists, and it works already damn good.
You can look, for instance, at the Deoldify open-source project, and some websites (like MyHeritage) are already offering services like this (based on the same open-source project), but with too few options.
I’m sure that this kind of AI-thing is something Topaz can make for general purpose with great quality. And it can be amazing.
I would certainly buy this if Topaz is going to market a program like this.
At the moment I am looking with one eye to Pixbim, which does a nice job, but is not quite there yet.
Old post, I see, but I have to agree. Was just thinking about this today. It would be great if the next big addition to the AI Photo app would be colonizing black and white photos. Yes, there are such apps available already, but I haven’t found one yet that I thought was really good.
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I think it would be great to have a colourise B&W feature. Actually, the same algorithm could be used to restore colour to a faded colour image. Recently, I scanned some old slides and found that the colours had faded and shifted. Regular colour correction tools would not work as the highlights, mid tones and shadows all had a different colour balance. A colour restoration algorithm would be great in this situation for batch processing.
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Chris
If anyone is interested, there are colorization models out there, and can be used with chaiNNer
And the colorization models are : ddcolor_artistic.pth and ddcolor_modelscope.pth
It doesn’t always works on every image, but it could be interesting for some people here
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If it were smart enough to identify objects and specify at least some of the colors for them, that would be even more useful than a generic colorization, especially as there will be many cases of monochrome photography where the colors for clothing, eyes, hair, etc are already known from living memory, left behind belongings (or historically documented).
Hello everyone! If you’re interested in image colorization, I’d love to chat. Please send me an email at dakota.wixom@topazlabs.com with the subject line COLORIZE IMAGE. Send me some example images you would want colorized.
Shhhh. No spoilers! 
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I’d like to see this feature. I expected to have it in version 4.0.0, but it hasn’t come yet. It would be interesting to have a way to select objects and, with the object selected, choose the color. Having to keep painting 100% of the object can take a lot of time.
Hi.
Please be patient there’s a lot more to come and colourization is certainly on the list of features that Topaz are going to include as a future update.
You have to admit for now the new Dust & Scratches is tremendous and definitely surpasses the AI Photo Restoration found within Photoshop’s Neutral filters and it’s still only the first Generation BETA version at the moment.
I inturn admit it’s not perfect yet! But then again, I suppose it’s the old issue with how does the tech distinguish between what’s D&S from original image details within a scanned photograph.
I also would say, any automation process that’s going to get me Sixty, Seventy, Eighty or Ninety percent to where I want to be without any help then, I say bring it on, and that’s before you’ve included Face Recovery, Sharpening, Denoiseing and any other goodies Photo AI has to other.
Speaking of dust and scratches it has to be said that, the new Dust & Scratches Filter certainly out shines Photoshop traditional Dust & Scratches filter however that said, there’s still life in the old dog and a place for our old friend so don’t throw it away just yet and that’s despite the filter being over Twenty Eight years old now. Besides, don’t get me started about YouTube and the misuse of the Photoshop Dust & Scratches filter.
As I’m sure you know AI colorization won’t be anything basic like basic Photoshop colouring technique where you take an old portrait add a Blank Layer choose the Colour Blend Mode then, select a soft round Brush and paint a skin tone colour over the portrait.
On the contrary, when Topaz do introduced their Colourisation Enhancement it will be something special for instance let’s hope they’ll be able to reproduced natural skin and flesh tones in portraits which I dare say will be quite an achievement just ask any Portrait Artist about the sheer scope of recreating human complexions with natural depth and realism.
I don’t know if this would be a factor for Topaz but, certainly a factor for restoration that’s mostly overlooked when dealing with colouring some old photographs other than, dealing with faded, damaged, sepia or silvering is that for added contrast many B&W pictures would quite literally range from 100th% White (no details) for highlights to 100% Black (again no details) for the shadows because, no colour no need to worry about burning the highlights or crushing the shadows for dramatic impact which, is something you certainly wouldn’t want to see with old colour pictures.
This is an exciting avenue for Topaz to take right now considering for years they been telling us their applications were never trained on B&W or Scanned Images only colour digital ones. I have reiterated that several times myself, when members have had problems in the past explaining although, the enhancements work expect there might be issues.
As I say exciting times ahead for Photo AI and certainly all good thing comes to those who wait
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Hello, I’m rooting for Topaz’s success, not only in terms of colorization, but also in so many other projects. Today I see that some people spend hours editing, so anything that comes to facilitate will always be welcome. Some even achieve some good results using software other than Photoshop with local processing of generative AI, I can mention ControlNET within Stable Diffusion solutions, but the generated images are not always faithful to the real images. I like the idea of the fidelity of skin textures and with colors. I’m looking forward to seeing.
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