I recently came across Picture Colorizer; a free online tool that lets you produce stunning color pictures out of your old black-and-white photos. I used it with some old photos from my personal album and was amazed by the result. For example, this is a 1970 photo of my mother holding me:

The same photo after colorizing:

What’s amazing is that it literally took a few seconds for the software to colorize the photo. All I had to do was drag-and-drop it into the relevant field and hit “go.”

Colorizer also works beautifully with color photos that have faded with time. This is a 1972 photo from a birthday party:

And this is how Colorizer fixed it:

Pretty impressive, right?

How to Use Images

I confess that I’ve been caught up in the past lately and a tool like this has been invaluable in bringing it to life. But…