This may be of interest -
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Al photo tool passes
with flying colours
Black anit white
photos are
beautiful but
can distance us
from the past,
making even the Fiftles
and Sixties seem lik«
eons ago (Mark Bridge
writes).
Colourlslng old
images can bring them
to startling life, as the
director Peter Jackson's
footage of the Firsl
World Wnr showed last
year in "They Shall Not
Grow Old". This normally
involves a spcelulllt
.....
Monochrome gives way to
colour as Roger Bannister
breaks the tape; two dogs
come back to life from
Crufts of 1939, and girls
enjoy a Fifties (unfair
......
restorer, but now an
online tool, at
Colourise.sg, enables
people to colour their
old photos free of
charge. The times tried
it on scams of photos
from its archives,
including one of Roger
Bannister completing
the first sub-four minute
mile in 1954.
The tool was built by
the government of
Singapore but has been
used by enthusiasts
worldwide, especially
those interested in
family history. It does
not store users' pictures.
Preston Lim, one of
the tool's creators, wrote
in a blog post: "while it
is impossible to replicate
the exact conditions in
which the photo was
taken, it is possible to
add colour to help us
imagine what the
photographer could
have seen. It is almost
magical how a little bit
of colour can bring us
closer to that specific
moment in time."
The software
engineers refined their
algorithm using 500,000
photographs from the
New York public library
and the national
archives of Singapore
colour photos were
converted to black and
quite, so the software
could "learn" the most
likely colours for
elements of the image.
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No, I haven't tried it:-
https://colourise.sg/?fbclid=IwAR0PxF5snprVXd4BPpxsrMRUNWnxbD5yunbkuoVPJNh8f2rwaw475kTKm3A
