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1940s beach photo of a woman holding a striped beach ball above her head, colorized from black and white by AI

Colorize Black and White Photos with AI

Colorize photos in one click. Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer brings back natural color, repairs the scratches underneath and lifts the resolution at the same time.

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How to colorize a black and white photo

  1. 1

    Upload your photo

    Click Upload photo and select a JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC file to colorize. On desktop, you can also drag and drop your file anywhere on the screen.

  2. 2

    Colorize photo automatically

    Sit back while Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer adds realistic color to your photo. Scratches and fading get repaired in the same pass. No manual work required.

  3. 3

    Download colorized photo

    Your colorized photo is ready! Download it at around two and a half times the original resolution, share it with family, or keep editing with Pixelcut.

Add color to black and white photos in one click with Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer. Upload a scan and the AI handles skin tones, sky, clothing, and background all at once. You get a full color photograph back without masking, layer work, or manual color picking. Genealogists, family historians, and anyone with a shoebox of old prints love how quickly the results come back. Upload your black and white photo and watch it come to life in color!

Add color to black and white photos in one click

The same farm photo colorized by AI, with a brown draft horse and weathered barn wood in color

Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer brings your oldest family photos back to life. Grandparents on their wedding day, a parent at six years old, a vintage shot of a classic car parked in the driveway. Color is what makes those people feel real again instead of stuck in the past. Work from a flatbed scan or a quick phone snap and colorize photos without ever taking the album apart. Upload a family portrait and share it at the next reunion!

AI photo colorizer brings old family portraits and vintage shots to life

The same 1950s family portrait after AI colorization, with natural skin tones and warm interior light

Color alone leaves you with a bright version of a damaged print. Pixelcut repairs the scratches and faded patches in the same pass the color is applied. It analyzes the scan first and flags the dust spots and scratches it detected, keeps the film grain intact, and lifts the resolution while it works. Colorize photos that are torn or faded and they come back mended, in full color, and big enough to print. For repair without color, use photo restoration.

Repair, upscale, and colorize photos in one go

The same doorstep photo colorized by AI, with a blue dress, green foliage and warm stone in color

Wondering how the AI knows a dress was blue? Grayscale holds more information than it looks like it does. Every surface reflects light its own way, and skin, sky, fabric, and foliage each leave a different signature in a black and white print. The model reads the grayscale values in your picture and works out what those brightness levels most likely were in real life, while at the same time recognizing what it is looking at. A face, a brick wall, a field of grass. Tone and context inform each other, which is how Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer picks realistic color instead of washing a flat tint over everything.

Realistic AI colorization from grayscale tones

Vintage tram on a wet city street beside a graffiti wall, colorized from black and white by AI

Colorize photos online from any device, with everything running right in your browser. Photograph a vintage print where it sits in the album, or scan it on a flatbed for maximum detail, then upload from your phone, tablet, or laptop. There is no need to drop prints at a photo shop or mail them off to a colorizing service. Nothing to install, no software to set up. Upload a photo and get started!

Colorize photos online from any device

Studio portrait of a mother and her baby, colorized from black and white by AI with natural skin tones

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