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Can I paint some colors as a starting point (like img2img) and let it finish the rest? What about a conversation, like, "the dress isn't blue, it should be orange", doing on top of previous prompt?
Over the years, I've read that a products that's 10x better will be a game changer. I think you have, at least, a 10x better product. Congratulations!
I'll be using your service for my B/W prints. Great job!
I ran a test with a photo I took if people are curious. It does a great job for guessing, but of course there is room for improvement. https://i.postimg.cc/Y9dH4GxW/palette-fm-test.jpg
Awesome job! This makes me a bit envious. I am hobbyist colorizer [1] who did it the old school way (with tools like Affinity Photo and lot of manual work). I tried de-oldify and other tools but I justified my work thinking how horrible they were but pallette.fm is way too good. Not sure if I would find the motivation to restore old photos anymore. Glad that this was just a small hobby for me and I had just started l…
(Genuine) question, and no snark intended: why do so many people want to change history? Black and white photos are - for many of us - part of our shared historical record. Is there really a need to improve (=change) them? Can't we appreciate them exactly as they are, without modifications?
Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Same with the facial expressions in old photos. People look pretty serious but that's just because of the technology pf photography back then. People were as silly and joyful as nowadays.
This is a known misconception. People on old pictures are not smiling because they liked it this way, not because of long exposure times. Same for paintings. Except for Mona Lisa, you were supposed to be dead serious when being immortalized on picture for generations to come.
I ran a test with a photo I took if people are curious. It does a great job for guessing, but of course there is room for improvement. https://i.postimg.cc/Y9dH4GxW/palette-fm-test.jpg
Cool. Interesting to note that the original is not necessarily the "correct" real world color palette (it's accuracy is subject to camera settings, sensor response, lighting, etc), so the colorized version could in theory be even better than the original in some or all areas of the photo.
(Genuine) question, and no snark intended: why do so many people want to change history? Black and white photos are - for many of us - part of our shared historical record. Is there really a need to improve (=change) them? Can't we appreciate them exactly as they are, without modifications?
Yes, there is. They offer a specifically degraded perspective into the past - namely, the loss of color. I do appreciate them as they are, and I also think that the effort to use them as inputs for current technology is also very interesting. I think that seeing these photos, the past in color, helps to humanize the subjects of the photo, and see them, and their environment in a more accessible, realistic way.
I'd like to present this collection of real color photographs that date far back - I think they are really interesting to look at, because we're so used to the black and white version of the clothes, technology, buildings from back then.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/oldest-c...
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Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Same with the facial expressions in old photos. People look pretty serious but that's just because of the technology pf photography back then. People were as silly and joyful as nowadays.
> Some use picture to imagine how life was back then. Life wasn't black and white. Life (time) doesn't tend to stand still, either, yet we are able to appreciate photographs. Would we really benefit from old photographs being AI-animated into "videos"? Perhaps I'm showing my age, but the older I get the more I feel at one with life's imperfections. I'm fine without filters and HDR ... or colour ... or motion.