Colorize Black & White Photos

The DDColor model analyzes the photo's grayscale tones and predicts realistic colors based on millions of images. The result is a colored version of the original.

The photo is sent to the colorization service only for processing. We recommend downloading the result right away.

Nothing: it is free. There is a daily number of colorizations and you need a Bink account, also free. The limit is what keeps the tool running without charging anyone.

A neural network trained on a very large number of colour photographs guesses the most likely colour for each area, reading the shapes and the shades of grey. It is an informed guess, not a recovery of the original colours.

Not necessarily. Skin, sky and vegetation usually come out convincing because they vary little, while clothes, paint and objects are guesses: a red jumper may come back blue. The grey image carries no record of the real hue.

Sharp photographs with good contrast and recognisable subjects, especially portraits and outdoor scenes. Heavily damaged, very dark or very grainy images give poorer results, because the model has less to read.

To a server of ours, and we say so plainly because this is one of the few tools that cannot run inside the browser: the processing needs a real machine. The file is uploaded, processed, and deleted automatically within an hour. Nobody opens it, it does not end up in an archive, and it is never used to train anything.

No. The file does the job you asked for and then it is gone: we do not link it to you, we do not resell it, we do not pass it to third parties and we do not train any model on it. Most other Binatomy tools upload nothing at all and work only in your browser; this is one of the few that cannot.

We do not profile you: there is no account to create, we never ask for your email to use a tool, and we keep no profile of what you do. We are an Italian company and we work under the GDPR and the other European rules, with the privacy notice and the consent request in plain sight. One thing we say in full rather than hiding it behind a slogan: the ads on the page are Google's, and Google may use cookies to personalise them. You decide from the consent banner: if you say no the ads stay, but they are not personalised, and the tool works exactly the same.

From the ads on the page, and that is all. We do not sell your data, there is no hidden paid plan, there is no limit that eventually asks for your card, and you do not have to sign up. The ads pay for the servers and for the time we spend writing the tools: that is how we can keep them open to everyone.