AI Photo Colorizer: Colorize photos online
<p>Upload a photo and describe the colors you want. The AI colorizes it in the AI Playground while faces and details stay the same.</p>
Explore AI photo colorizer features
One tool to colorize photos with AI in Picsart's AI Playground, from your words to a finished photo.
How to colorize a photo with AI
Colorize online in four steps: upload a photo to the AI Playground, describe the colors and let AI colorize images for you.
Turn black and white photos into color with AI
Colorize black and white photos, old prints and scans in the AI Playground: describe the colors you want, from natural skin tones to a soft blue sky. The AI turns a black and white picture to color while faces, clothing and composition stay as they are. A phone photo of a print works as the source.
- Add color to pictures of any era
- One prompt colors the whole photo
- Try another model on the same photo
Guide the colors with your words
Describe the palette you want, from warm vintage tones to natural daylight colors, with your photo as a reference. Add the light and the season, like late afternoon sun in autumn, and the AI shifts every color to match it. Mood words color the result too, like soft and faded for an album page.
- Name colors for single objects
- Plain words, no color codes
- Generate again with a changed word
Keep faces and details as they are
Tell the AI what must not change: faces, clothing, composition. The colors change and the photo stays your photo. Before you download, zoom in on eyes, hands and small text, since these details show first when something shifted. For group photos, name the people by position, like the woman on the left, so each person keeps their own look.
- Expressions and poses stay put
- Say it once in the prompt
- Compare with your original
Treat AI colors as an interpretation
AI cannot know the original colors of a black and white photo, so the result is an interpretation. Gray tones can match many colors, so a red dress and a blue one look alike in black and white. Several runs, several readings when you know how something looked, like a later photo of the same house.
- Several runs, several readings
- Archive photos can guide the colors
- Use colors you know from family memory
See what you can colorize with AI
Colorize old photos of your family and historical prints. Skin tones, clothes and the sky come back while every face stays the same.
Colorize this faded family photo with natural skin tones, a red shirt for the boy, a floral blouse for the woman and a clear summer sky. Keep their faces and the composition the same.
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Colorize images FAQ
Colorizing in Picsart uses credits, and only the photos you colorize spend them. The AI Playground shows the cost of each model before you run it. Pro and Ultra plans refill credits every month, and add-on credit packs you buy have no expiry date.
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