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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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
AI photo colorizer brings old family portraits and vintage shots to life
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
Repair, upscale, and colorize photos in one go
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
Realistic AI colorization from grayscale tones
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
Colorize photos online from any device
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
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Frequently Asked Questions
AI photo colorization starts with the tones in your image. A bright patch and a dark patch reflect light differently, and those grayscale values give away what each surface was made of. At the same time the model recognizes what it is looking at, whether that is a face, sky, grass, wood, or brick, and it knows what colors those things usually are. Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer weighs both together, which is how the color it picks matches how the scene actually looked.
The colors are realistic rather than documented. Pixelcut's AI Photo Colorizer predicts color from the tones in your photo and from what it recognizes in the scene, which is why skin, sky, and grass come back looking right. What it cannot do is know the exact shade of one specific dress or a painted front door, because that information is simply not in a black and white print. Think of it as an informed and very convincing estimate rather than a historical record.
Absolutely! Colorize photo runs repair the damage in the same pass. Scratches, dust spots, and faded areas are fixed right alongside the color, and there is no need to clean up your scan first.
Yes! The same run rebuilds fine detail and raises resolution to roughly two and a half times the original in each dimension. For resolution alone, use our free image upscaler.
Yes! The resolution goes up in the same run, which is what makes a colorized photo a print file rather than a web preview. That is the difference between something you post and something you frame. Anniversary gifts, a framed print for a grandparent, a photo book the whole family gets a copy of. Check the pixel size before ordering a large print.
Yes, Pixelcut works on any device. Upload a JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC file straight from your phone, whether it is a flatbed scan or a picture you snapped of the print.
Yes. Your images are processed securely and are never shared. That matters most for family photos, where the scan you upload is often the only surviving copy of the print.
Prints with a clear range of light and dark colorize most convincingly. Very dark or blown out areas hold less tonal information. Run a soft scan through the AI photo enhancer first.
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