Bring Old Black-and-White Photos to Life
Upload any black-and-white or sepia photo — our AI fills in era-accurate colour for skin, skies, period clothing, and vintage objects. No manual painting.
Drop your photo here
PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, HEIC — up to 10MB
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3 Steps to a Colourised Photo
Drop in the grayscale. Our AI reads era, skin, sky, and fabric, then paints each pixel. Download HD.
or drag & drop here
PNG, JPG, WEBP up to 10MB
Upload your B&W photo
Drop any PNG, JPG, WEBP, or HEIC up to 10MB. Scanned family photos, newspaper clippings, and sepia prints all work.
AI reads the era
The model picks up clothing style, architecture, and film-grain signatures to decide if this is a 1920s jazz-age portrait, a 1950s colour-era print, or a 1970s snapshot — and paints accordingly.
Colour, rendered
Every region gets its own palette — realistic skin tones, period-accurate clothing, and natural skies. Download in full resolution with no watermark.
The right colours for every generation
Every decade had its own film stock and colour range. Our AI detects the era and paints with the palette that actually existed — not a modern filter dropped over history.
Block parties, school picture day, and church portraits from the most optimistic decade of the century. Our AI brings back the pastel-mint walls, cherry-red cardigans, and clear-sky blues of a post-war suburb seeing colour for the first time.
Which era is your photo from?
What our AI actually gets right
Generic colourisers paint everyone orange. Our model runs four region-specific passes so every part of the photo ends up in the right palette.
Faces & skin tones
See how the AI handles mixed skin tones across a group without flattening anyone to a generic hue. Facial landmarks are sampled individually — the result looks like a colour photo taken on the day, not a filter applied over it.
Outdoor scenes
Skies graduate from deep blue at the zenith to pale at the horizon — no flat fill. Grass reads as green without bleeding into the clothing beside it, and the brick or stonework in the background gets its own warm, gritty palette.
Old homes & buildings
The family home in 1952. A farmhouse passed down through three generations. A row of townhouses on a street that barely exists anymore. Our AI restores the painted timber, weathered brick, and garden greenery so the house looks exactly as it did on the day the photo was taken.
Veterans & family portraits
A grandfather in dress uniform on the front lawn. A serviceman's homecoming with his wife and children at the door. Our AI restores the precise olive of a military uniform, the gleaming brass of medals, and the natural skin tones of every family member — doing justice to photos that deserve to last forever.
Choose Your Plan
From one-time headshots to full brand photography, we have a plan for everyone.
Lite
Get started with monthly AI credits.
80 credits
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Pro
More credits for regular content creators.
160 credits
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Max
AI Trained on your face. Fresh packs every month.
500 credits/month
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AI Photo Colorizer — FAQ
Everything about colourising old photos with AI.
Your family history, in full colour.
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