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I am always in the minority - but do think people are being over sensitive to the posters link which i think is an interesting and relevant link to the process of colourisation. Like i said if mods are going to move the original posters link they will - and save us all from a tool that cant do the job as good as we can anyway 

An interesting find, thanks for sharing. I made some tests and was surprised by the results for skin tones, it does a nearly half decent job for base colours. It does retain the original feel of the photo and does not remove noise/grain etc.


What i would say as someone that likes to colour old photos; Is it does not colour backgrounds and misses a fair few spots on the people subjects, especially where shadows and contrast are darker and also fine detail like jewellery. It does not take into consideration lighting within the environment. It does however deal quite well with the hair colouring, but wouldn't know if someone should be redhead, mousy brown, dark brown etc etc.


It could be a handy tool to kick start the base colours of skin colouring but not much more than that.


I think in the next few years these algorithm based auto colourisation tools will be perfected...


If your photos came out well when playing with them, then that's great and it is indeed amazing to see how some of these BW photos can look with a colour splash   

Sure no problem at all. Go for it 

Took a shot at guessing some colours whilst i cleaned it up. So may be off but this is what i imagined when i looked at the portrait.

A try from me with some colour. Very tough one indeed to remove grain and retain the facial features and light effects. Anyway another couple of options for you if you like them...