Submitted by t-bands t3_yshas1 in InternetIsBeautiful
unzercharlie t1_iw0ir1u wrote
Reply to comment by Raxsah in Website that automatically colorizes old black-and-white photos by t-bands
I completely understand the sentiment, and I love the idea of someone seeing a loved one in color.
I did a restoration for my grandparents, but I was able to say "what color was that jacket?" and "what color was that dress?" and "what color was that truck?" They loved it and I loved doing it. I googled to find the original colors everywhere I could.
Colorizing something and just guessing the colors, or letting AI guess the colors, is something else entirely. I get doing it to learn colorization, or as a fun experiment, but I still believe it's the equivalent of a coloring book, and ruins a perfectly good black and white photo, which is a more accurate representation of history.
King_Buliwyf t1_iw0kxia wrote
What a strange hill to die on.
unzercharlie t1_iw0s1yw wrote
Having an opinion = dying on a hill
its_never2_late t1_iw1odjw wrote
Oh lordy here we go
JimJohnes t1_iw1iwp5 wrote
How can you "ruin" digital copy of a photo?
u1tralord t1_iw0khhl wrote
Future iterations likely will have those features. This tech is just recently being made available to the public.
For now, you can just re-run it again for another variation
brownowski t1_iw0x2b6 wrote
You can add that into the prompt given to the AI already. E.g. a red truck or woman in a yellow dress. Although, I have found you need to find a name for the colour that represents it pretty accurately, otherwise it might add a tint to the entire photo. You might get poor results just saying brown or red instead of burnt sienna or something more specific.
blitz672 t1_iw3r92o wrote
So I did some tinkering with the word text and it was a bit better. What's funny is running the same original img Thu a 2nd yielded vastly different results.
Original color
Black and white
1st time Thu
2nd
Tweeked text prompt
blitz672 t1_iw3rn22 wrote
So I did some tinkering with the word text and it was a bit better. What's funny is running the same original img Thu a 2nd yielded vastly different results.
Original color
Black and white
1st time Thu
2nd
Tweeked text prompt
enilea t1_iw34pti wrote
>letting AI guess the colors
You can change the text prompt to choose different colors
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