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Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
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#112Thank you so much Emil - I have some old photos B/W of my dad who is no longer with us and have wanted to colorize them somehow for years. The results from just dropping the photos on your page - no tweaking or whatnot - are incredible and have me in tears. Amazing work.
I can't remember the name but there's a Reddit subreddit where people can post photos to request colorization, so that may be an option if you're curious what some passionate volunteers might do for you.
Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
#113Thank you so much Emil - I have some old photos B/W of my dad who is no longer with us and have wanted to colorize them somehow for years. The results from just dropping the photos on your page - no tweaking or whatnot - are incredible and have me in tears. Amazing work.
I can't remember the name but there's a Reddit subreddit where people can post photos to request colorization, so that may be an option if you're curious what some passionate volunteers might do for you.
Great suggestion - thank you.
Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
#114Thank you so much Emil - I have some old photos B/W of my dad who is no longer with us and have wanted to colorize them somehow for years. The results from just dropping the photos on your page - no tweaking or whatnot - are incredible and have me in tears. Amazing work.
Comments like this are what make me come back to HN. I hope the memories are kept alive.
Thank you so much. My daughter is away at camp - I can't wait to show her tomorrow too when she gets back.
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#115Awesome 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…
Could it have been trained on work of people like you?
Re: Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
#116I 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.
100% I think my original photo is a bit oversaturated. The real issues I see are where it makes blue things brown and red things green.
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#117Is there a way I could contact you directly?
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#118How does this differ from deoldify?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> People look pretty serious but that's just because of the technology pf photography back then 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.
Sounds similar to police mugshots, you don't want to be smiling or too happy as future generations may mock you...
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#120I tried one of my recent B&W film images. It basically recreated the original scene (a graffitied building). Nice!