Colorize - Color to Old Photos Reviews

by Dpihl

One out of nine images you process will be useable.
The ones that are keepers are amazing.
The artificial intelligence is mind blowing.
But there’s always a hand that gets missed, while the rest of the fleshy parts are great.
It’s understandable that body parts get missed
Unforgivable, however, is the fact that there is no way to go back and fix whatever the algorithm missed.
You can’t expect perfection from a machine.
So I have to go off and find some other program to use for cleaning up the mess.
Programs like Hair Color add similar tints, but the color picker doesn’t allow you to pick up colors from the image itself.
The lack of frisket masks makes Hair Color worse than tinting a photo with Marshall’s oil tints on a photographic print.
I’ve tried literally dozens of beautify programs to enhance the output of this software.

It works great.

Sometimes.

The whole process is just too unpredictable.

Why must developers see this as an either/or proposition????

Either machine intelligence OR human driven interface!!!!

That’s completely nuts!!!

Let the machine try very hard to get the job done.

THEN let the human step in and clean things up.

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**Update**

Since posting this review, all save options have disappeared.
As if one out of nine photos wasn’t bad enough, now I get none out of every none.

by R.L. Moss

Maybe I’m missing something. Why can’t I choose a pic from an album that I already scanned years ago? The option I’m given is scan or upload. After that I’m able to choose from the “moments” folder. How do I choose any other folder? Either I missed it or the developers did. I’m guessing me. Hopefully it’s me but I’m not seeing any other options in Colorize to choose albums! I get that the algorithms can not be exact. I’m not reviewing that part (though there should be a way to fine tune what the software isn’t picking up).

by Loved Flipgram

Just paid for the 2 years. I colorized a picture on my photo gallery on my phone. Turned out great! How and what do I do to see my pictures to this app them? I will update my rating when I find out how to get my pictures to this app. This is the only reason I got app is to use my camera roll. If I can’t use pictures on my camera roll, I want to unsubscribe to Colorize . Which I’d hate to have to do, but app will be worthless to me 🥺
Thank you for replying to my problems and telling me what app I needed. The this app old photos app works great! Some photos this app better than others, but I love it!
Please refund me my 2 year subscription on the scanning app, since I’ll be deleting it since I can’t use it. I will definitely update my review when I get refund for the other app that I can’t use.
Thanks again for your help! 😊 SusieCox

by Brocchus

If you have a lot of B&W photos and some patience Colorize will hit a home run about 1 in 10 times. Is that worth the monthly fee? Depends on the user. Most of the time clothing converts to some shade of gray often with annoying red tints and patches. Hands, feet, and ears frequently stay their original shade giving them the appearance of dead limbs. Objects of obvious color such as flowers inevitably convert to grayish or brownish colors. If your originals are out of focus you are probably out of luck. And the auto-crop sometimes takes off the top of a head or mutilates group photos. I know it’s just an app, but if these issues could be corrected or if colors could be manually attached to objects, Colorize would rock. As it is, for me anyway, for now I will hang around for those home runs. Ciao.

by 6Klub

I love this freakin’ app. It does exactly what I wanted it to do.

No, it’s not 100% (some spots on my photos are discolored, uncolored, or miscolored) but it is perfect for bringing life back into my photos, which is invaluable to me as a family researcher and historian.

I’m using it to this app photos from my family tree on Ancestry and it’s already helping my photos there to pop and speak out.

I was paying a girl about $5-$10 per photo to this app and restore on Fiverr. Now I van this app as many photos as I want for less than $6/month (yes, I sprang for the paid version). Every now and then, an app comes along that’s worth the extra coin.

And to think, I found out about it through one of those IG ads that pop up in the middle of your Story feed.

If they figure out how to incorporate photo restoration, I might just be an annual subscriber.

by Ronsterbot

Naturally the software used is infantile, but it is quite amazing. It record images with a great recollection for colors-sometimes. Skin tones are amazing but don’t always cover the entire body. Sometimes the face will be perfect but the chest or arms and hands won’t be colored. Other times the clothes are passed over entirely. I’m sure as time goes on the recoloring will better, but for now it is an amazing tool. Hopefully someday you will be able to totally recolor an image with a fair degree of accuracy. Also another small thing, when uploading, you should be allowed to choose what album you want to search through. Scrolling through my moments for a specific date is quite a pain. Other than that, great app!

by Joshua D.

I appreciate and am grateful for what Colorize does, many thanks to the developers for this program. It's fun turning black and white photos into color photos.

Still, when the render process happens I noticed that it leaves spots of the photos I'm using untouched with color. A majority of the photo will be colorized very well and it's quite remarkable I think how well and seemingly magically Colorize performs this function. But, in pretty much every photo I've uploaded and imported. The render process will always leave spots of the photo I'm using untouched and those spots remain black and white or sepia or whatever else the original tint was in the source.

I haven't tried taking a scan of a black and white photo to this app yet, so Colorize may provide better results using it that way.

Overall, though, I'm happy and grateful for such a nice, free application, thank you. Maybe with some updates to the program that I'm sure will follow. The developers could hone the process some more so that the render and transformation process doesn't leave any spots of imported photos untouched please. Thanks if you'll look into this issue.

Also, thank you again for this wonderful free tool and if you'll consider looking into refining and improving the colorization process and God bless.

by Ibanezadam

So I’ve just started using Colorize and honestly the pictures look pretty awesome. My 2 main issues so far are....

1. The slider doesn’t go all the way across the photo. So there’s always a strip of B/W down the right side of every photo. I don’t need a slider at all, and it just seems to be getting in the way.

2. I have no control over the cropping, so for the problem above I would just shrink the photo slightly to make sure the colorizing goes all the way across, but I can’t, so I don’t. The lack of these basics options are frustrating. Pictures look great for the parts that get covered! Hopefully that’ll be fixed soon or I’ll figure out a way around it.

by Thesmokingpeanut

I’m doing a painting of my grandfather who died when my dad was young, so I never got to meet him. My reference was a black and white picture taken of him during the 40s and since I’m doing this as a surprise for my dad, I can’t really ask him what color his hair was or what shade his eyes were. So I thought I would just have to go with what I picture in my head. When I saw Colorize I didn’t expect much but I tried it on the reference picture and it was so real looking. This is certainly gonna help a lot with finishing the painting. Definitely would give Colorize a try!

by Egbdf93

The only thing keeping me from purchasing Colorize is the inconsistency it has with coloring. I’m not expecting complete transformations but one photo it will do really well and the next is blotchy or missing most everything. I even tried to finish some in Photoshop but that’s even worse. Don’t know if it gets better if you purchase...$40 is a lot for something not that dependable. Have to say it is the best one out there right now just too expensive for only doing half the job half the time. I’ll keep checking on improvements!

by AjBurnhanl

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt in 2/3 trials. I took 3 photos, 2 i used the built in photo editor of Apple, the third I ram through photoshop. The first 2 didn’t work, and that’s there the benefit comes in, but the third was surprisingly accurate. It got the blue of the walls pretty close, and the black of the shirt was a bit redder than black, but still close. The 4 colors were pastel, but definitely there. Overall, this is a really cool concept and I’m glad I tried it out. Will be keeping.

by Macgeekgrl

I downloaded Colorize on a lark, just to see what it can do. I’ve been researching my family tree so I have a lot of black and white pics to test it on. I’m really surprised by the results! A few pics didn’t turn out very well but they were poor quality to start with. The others have turned out so well, and it’s amazing to see these long lost relatives in color for the first time. I’m so happy with the results!

by Slouchy (Sam)

Coming from a 16 year old, this is absolutely mind blowing. I took three pictures of a group and they all came back with color and no errors. Even when five people were in one picture it was capable of gathering colors. I cant wait to use this on old photos, especially my grandfather who I have never met before, therefore this is an amazing app that should keep going and to give it a shot.

by Ny35Kngtn

When I saw this program I didn’t think that it was gonna be much but when I found out how easy it is to operate and to maneuver yourself through this to get your photos in it is so easy I am so very happy with the outcome of the colors and everything I highly recommend it to anybody who does photography yes it cost to pay but you can paying for a good service

by New Brighton Hometown

This has done a great and excellent job for me so far, but in a lot of pictures when flags and bunting of Red, White & Blue the software still does not recognize this and color them! So far some pictures I knew would not be good for color but they come out fantastic, it’s been great for me but a few tweaks need to be worked out! 👍 A great app to use to add color!

If anyone gives it a low star, it’s has to be the competition posting, because without a subscription you get the tools needed that’s great, but I use it so much that I did get a subscription and never have regret it!

Just if the flags and bunting would color in, it would be the Ultimate app! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

by Captainmike32

So I love learning bout the HISTORY I LOVE IT!! And I was going to images and Wikipedia for WW2 but then I’m like...wait what color are their uniforms and their tanks and stuff and other old pictures I found and surprisingly IT WORKED but I thought there was blood in the picture but then in every picture had blood so I’m like...this is not the picture, it’s Colorize ... so I don’t know if you could fix that or if it’s just normal buttttt......THX FOR Colorize!!!

by Latin Film Fan

I was impressed by Colorize. It takes seconds to this app a black and white photograph and does a great job most of the time. There are some instances where it doesn’t color all of the skin on a picture and sometimes there is a bit of a rainbow pattern on some of the clothing (especially if the clothing was originally red).

Regardless of the occasional issues, which will hopefully be fixed with more updates, Colorize really is amazing with what it can do. The result can be jaw dropping.

I also tried it out on old pictures which were originally color photographs but had aged so that badly I was unable to fix the colors- I simply made them black and white and ran them through Colorize and they looked a hundred times better.
I would highly recommend Colorize to anyone who is interested.

by Tom Gibson

I didn’t really expect much, but it really works (most of the time). Since I didn’t have any b&w photos, I downloaded some from the web. It seems to struggle when there are multiple people in different lighting. It seems to know patterns and is able to color based on those patterns such as bricks or wood. It was unable to this app the U.S. flag, however. I had a color picture of a Buckingham Palace guard that I turned b&w and ran through Colorize . It knew the coat was supposed to be red. Overall, Colorize is very good at what it does. I’m hoping there will continue to be improvements.

by Dr Chewey

this app produces dramatic results in an instant when I point my IPhone at BxW prints of family from as much as a century ago. I could even say breathtaking results. The mostly lifeless old prints in my collection of parents or friends from yesteryear "come alive" again. Family reunion from 1947, no problem. Parents wedding portrait, easy-peasy. I have been sharing the colorized photos on Facebook and via email to great acclaim. this app does a spectacular job with faces. The tint and tone is so real looking. I happily recommend this app to anyone with a drawer full of old, maybe dog-eared prints.

by Indigoperspective

Colorize is amazing. I was skeptical at first because I have tried other apps promising to turn my black and white photos into color ones and I’ve never found an app that produced photos that looked authentic like Colorize does. I am even able to add color to very old black and white photos and the photos turn out looking authentically vintage but in color instead of the original black and white. Colorize is well worth the money and it has given me the ability to this app black and white photos that are very meaningful to myself and my family. Thank you, app developers! 💜

by Eric Hendrix

Wish you could see the result of Colorize ’s introductory colorization. I gave it a crisp black and white portrait, and it returned the same image with just a splash of skin tone color from one eye, across the bridge of the nose, to the other eye. Roughly 90% of the image remained black and white (and remember the photo is all head and top of the shoulders, very little background around the edges. A very close up selfie if you will). And there isn’t any way to give Colorize “hints” of what areas are skin, hair, cloth, etc. No way to adjust Colorize ’s colorization.

I’m sorry Photomyne, but buyers move along, nothing to see here.

by Sara_stovall

Colorize is awesome, but I had an issue with crashes. I just downloaded it and it was working well until I tried uploading a third photo. It crashed 3 times consecutively when I tried to this app the photo, then told me I had used up my free shares and editing. Conceptually, it’s awesome. The first two photos I attempted were very well edited. I just wish the bug hadn’t happened so I could see the full range of colorization of my old family photos.

by Luminax The ChargeKeeper

Really great interface and simple. However, the colorization misses a lot. Some pics this app the bulk of a persons flesh, but their legs, neck,
or other random area are still black and white. Needs a targeted “fix this spot” ability so you can recolor areas that are missed by the automated pass. If that was fixed it would be a 5 star and worth paying a few bucks for.

by Ah091023

Just downloaded, and have already shown my mom a color picture of her dad. It’s the first time she’s ever seen him so full of life since she was a little girl, he passed away almost 60 years ago. Thank you this app, you have a new, very happy user and family. ❤️❤️

by Joey.deCa

I thought this was gonna be a stereotypical app that claims something and then is like oh never mind. But it’s really not. I took some of my old ww2 black and white photos and scanned them. And they came out amazing! It almost feels like I was there now! This is a great app