AI Photo Colorizer

The colorizer is fully automatic, so the quality of the input matters most.

• Scan, do not photograph, if you can. A flat scan at 300 to 600 dpi avoids glare and keystone distortion. If you use a phone, shoot straight on in daylight without flash.
• Crop out the album page and borders with Crop Image so the AI focuses on the photo.
• Fix damage first. Cracks, stains and missing corners can pick up odd colors. Run badly damaged prints through AI Photo Restoration.
• Sharpen before or enlarge after. For soft photos, try Unblur Image first; to print large, use the AI Image Upscaler on the colorized result.

Sepia and faded photos work too. The AI treats them as monochrome and chooses new colors.

Photos with a clear subject and good contrast give the most convincing results: portraits, weddings, family groups, street scenes and landscapes. Very dark, very washed-out or heavily grainy scans give the AI less information, so colors may look flatter. If you have several copies of the same photo, use the sharpest and least faded one.

Once colorized, old photos are easy to share. Send them to relatives, print them for a frame, or add them to a family video. You can also animate a colorized portrait with Image to Video for a subtle moving version.

Both tools can give you a color version of an old photo, but they do different jobs and cost different amounts.

• AI Photo Colorizer (this page, $0.03): adds color only. Best for black and white photos in good condition. It does not try to fix or retouch anything.
• AI Photo Restoration ($0.10, first one free): repairs scratches, tears, stains and fading and colorizes at the same time. Best for damaged prints.

Remember that AI colorization is an informed guess. The model knows skies are usually blue and grass is green, but it cannot know the real color of a dress or a car in 1950. If accuracy matters, for example for a museum or a historical record, treat the result as an illustration and label it as colorized. You can adjust a specific color afterwards with the AI Image Editor, for example "make the dress dark red".

Many people use both tools together on the same album: restoration for the damaged prints, the colorizer for the rest. Because the colorizer is a third of the price, it makes sense to try it first on photos that only look faded or gray, and switch to restoration only if the result shows the damage too clearly.

Each photo costs $0.03 from your RegiAI balance, so a $10 credit pack colorizes more than 300 photos. There is no subscription; packs are $10, $25, $50 or $100, with bonus credit on the larger ones. Every signed-in user gets one free generation per day on tools priced $0.10 or less, and this is one of them; it does not stack or roll over. If a colorization fails, the charge is refunded automatically.

Results have no RegiAI watermark and are saved in My creations in your dashboard for 30 days, where you can download or delete them. The first run can take up to a minute if the model is warming up.

For a whole family album, colorize the most important photos first and check the results before doing the rest. If a skin tone or a piece of clothing comes out wrong, fixing that one detail with the AI Image Editor is usually faster than running the whole photo again.