This does a good job of colorizing photos when it works but it freezes and crashes too often. I tried cleaning and restarting my computer but it still won't work properly.

I wanted to try this, but in the middle of the install, I received a message that there is another install in progress, but there was not any other install in progress. I tried three times. Same things. So, not installed.

[NOTE FOR All USERS], if you still have the crash problem, please download our latest version from here:
https://imagecolorizer.com/download/picture-colorizer-win-2.exe

I now realise why it didn't work n my set up.
All my B&W pictures have more pixels than it can work with even though they are are only between 1 and 2 mg in size. You have to reduce the quality and size of the pictures in something like Paint Shop Pro before they will be accepted. However since it uploads the pictures to the web site, and you can that directly anyway, can't really see the point of it.
But at least I now know why it failed (Or 'Filed' as the program says!)

All users, for the crash issue, please resize your photo to a size no bigger than 3000*3000. Our system may have a problem when colorizing these large B&W photos.

Does not work. Downloaded and running on my laptop. Win 10.
I have B&W old photos. It displays the photo on the screen. Did the Colorize- it crashes and says unable to upload. Selecting any option- crash.
Unable to see the version number in the About section.
Uninstalling it.

Wow! I put a bw with about 10 people in the picture to give it a hard test and within seconds! Bingo Bango! Loved the results. In the graphic programs I use, it could have taken me and hour more or less to get similar results. Thanks so much. Way, way kewl!

Closed attempt. Wanted to suggest that there was a button to switch between original and edited one. Would like to have mouse wheel to also adjust sliders. A few more option settings would be nice.

Has anyone checked to see if their photos were removed within 24 hours? Just curious.

For some pictures it does a wonderful job. For some pictures it colorizes the photo but the colors are not "exactly right" but still interesting and useful.
For those who experienced it quitting at 75%, the picture image could be too large in pixel dimensions. I fed it an image of something like 6000x4000 and it choked. So I resized it down to something like 2000x1500 and that worked well.
For an interesting test, feed it a real color photo. It seems that, this is my guess, it first strips off the color (it brings color saturation down to zero) then it colorizes it its normal way. Comparing the two images you can get some idea what it does and how well it does. And, doing this can give a new look to some of your favorite real color photos.
This is a KEEPER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Imagecolorizer.com and GOTD!!!!!!!!

Those image fails to change when the sliders are used so they cannot be evaluated in real time. I tried colourizing 4 monochrome photos. The colour improvements were imperceptible to negligible.
I reckon it is useless.

While this program does have a tendency to colour everything with a shade of "flesh pink" it also has moments of brilliance. One old B&W screen capture I fed it had a face, legs, clothing, trees and a bit of wooden furniture. "this will get it" I thought.

To my surprise it had a good stab at making the skin look fleshy, the trees green and the furniture a slightly hesitant brown. So - quite a lot of near misses mixed with occasionally startlingly good results.

There are some glaring faults with the program, but nothing so far that is very bothersome. It's a pity they don't want feedback to improve the program.

Try this one. Its free and it works.
https://imagecolorizer.com/

Running Windows 7 Professional with 16 Gigs of RAM. Quick excellent results. It's a keeper.

Very easy download and registration. The first picture I tried got stuck at about 75% so I aborted it. Following that the pictures all colourized so I went back and tried the first one again and it worked just fine.

Don't expect the colourized pictures to look like something you've taken recently with a modern camera They look like colour pictures from a bygone era but I think that is the charm here - they still look like old pictures and I'm quite happy with that.

Tried it on two laptops, Windows 7 and 10, and just goes to 75% and stays there on both. On some occasions it just errors and after trying a few times, it just stops at 75%.

Download and install without problems. Stunning results. Many thanks ... on my "most wanted" list for a long time...

Downloaded onto my Windows 10 machine, installed and registered it.
Tried my first picture and it gave an error message saying "Filed to upload picture, please try again later" which I assume it means 'failed to upload'.
Tried another and got exactly the same message. Both were black & white pictures of my late parents and around 1.6mb so well within the limits it states.
I tried once more with the exactly the same effect.
Now uninstalled as for me it just doesn't work.

My results are more or less in line with what others reported, namely:

Installation, registration and use are as simple as they get.

Results can vary. In my case, Windows 10:
the first picture got stuck ¾ of the way
the following 3 worked, with acceptable though not outstanding coloration.

Trying again one of the three that worked, but this time adding Denoise, caused it to take a long time, not justified by the poor results.

Though I got no crash as such, the process getting stuck is not better, as it could keep you waiting in vain.

Clearly, the program needs more development. I would never buy it, and having got it free, I still hesitate whether to keep it.

Okay! Downloaded and installed on Mac OS Catalina (after circumventing apple'sprotections) I copied the registration key from the text file. BUT,
WHERE DO I PUT IT? (be kind now...)

I don't see anything labeled "registration" or the like. Is this preregistered if not, how do I get to the registration entry dialog??????

Aaahhhh - I can answer my own question. The trick is patience in waiting for processing to complete, plus use of sliders. I suspect I would use this to get a base level colour image, & then twiddle in Photoshop. I have now seen impressive results, so well pleased.

hmmm...dont have many old photos to work on :-( Anyone having old photos to share.

Such a shame. I really wanted this to work, but on a Win 10 machine with 8gb of RAM it has not got beyond 75% on anything I have tried, & I can see nothing on screen that shows me what has been done. I'm hoping someone finds the trick - if not, it will have to go. Anyone know any other similar apps?

doesn't work with OS10.13.6.

I really wanted it to work, it keeps crashing and it wont connect to Colorize it keeps saying to try later. Uninstall.

This software seems similar to the ones offered by other online folks such as ColoriseSG with same formula: upload any b&w foto and it will return to you in a few seconds their version of the foto in color, where you would just download it and enhance on your own.
The site recently has changed and doesn't seem to do it anymore; it was based in Singapore, I believe.
This offering here on GotD seems to have problems with the big dl you have to put into your pc...why? simply to get info on your pc. Any pic can be sent off to some site for coloring but I thought THIS OFFERING was a do-it-yourself thing.

Does not work. Progress bar gets to 75% and stops. Tried several photos all with the same result.

Atleast two errors were noted while installation failed.
1.error 2503. Called runscript when not marked in progress
2. error2502. Called instalfinal when no install in progress

I wonder, for those who say it crashes, have stand alone graphics cards. Many times processing photos demands a lot of resources and built in graphics, or even some of the less expensive cards cannot handle the processing and will crash. Of course, it would help if the manufacturer of this software would state the needs of it's product.

Love this software! I just wish it wasn't so buggy. I've now used it 7 times and it's crashed 5 out of the 7 times. That's not good. Should have had more beta testing. I am running Win7.

I've never tried this software. I'd like to try it out. Since I'm a old, I have a lot of family photos, some going back a hundred years. One of them is my dad in WWII in his Army dress uniform. It was tinted years ago, but it has faded over time. (For the youngsters out there, to get a color photo back then, you would have an artist hand tint in water colors and the reason they faded, on to a blk. & wht. image. Today with a few clicks and your done.) Sorry, I didn't mean to give a history lesson! Thanks to GOTD and ImageColorizer for the great offer.

Guys- I’m kind of lost.

The description says- the picture will be uploaded to their server for colorization.

So what the 112 MB installer is doing then? Sounds like a huge “uploader” or so...

Just curious before to test the program. Thanks.

This one has, so far, impressed me with the colouring. I had a phone app that colourised photos but the results here are definitely more accurate and convincing.

That said, it's not without issues; trying to use the inpaint feature caused an error saying a component failed to load, and the denoise option tended to corrupt the image unless you played about a lot with the sliders.

However, the main feature of colourising works very well in my short experience. If I can't get the inpaint and denoise features to work it's not a big deal as I can drop result into another program for that, though it would obviously be better to have it all working (and may be down to my somewhat underpowered laptop). Definitely one I'll keep on the system for the odd occasion I need it.

Have tried a few different photos with this app and each one gets half way down the picture with good results then the other half is just a pile of dots.

It's slow and you can only do one photo at a time... if you have hundreds of black and white photos, it would take forever to colorize all of them... I have an app for my iPhone that is much faster in colorizing.

Downloaded, extracted, installed ok, but it will not open.

If you go to their web site you can upload your photos directly up to 5MB and they work rather good. Some better than others. Hope this helps

I grabbed this one and did a quick test. Works great. It was easy to install and register. Win-win.

Just occasionally a bit of software turns up that gives me cause to say 'W'OW' and here it is.

Registration was as easy as it gets but once past that it just gets better.

Most of us have B&W (mono) photos stored on our systems and I have far more than most. I just loaded in a local view from 1910 and it now looks like it was taken in the 50's. it has brought colour in where there was none - and pretty accurately too.

Learning curve? Not really as its pretty straightforward. I am just looking forward to finding what limitations there are, if any. Also, there are a couple of colouriser sites online and they are good but this is definitely better.

Thanks imagecolorizer & Gaotd.

This one is def a keeper.

I gave this program a thumbs up because I really wanted to like it. If I was inclined to be consternated by frequent program crashes I would have not been so generous. It never brought down the computer or any other program and so c'est la vie.

Downloaded, installed, and registered with no problem. The first photo I put into the program was a family picture circa 1950. After chugging for a bit the photo was returned in color. Obviously colorized, but easily adjusted with the controls to the right of the main window. The result is like a 1950 Kodacolor print. So far so good.

Then I chose a circa 1898 photograph of my grandfather standing in front of his town band. They were all posed on a residential street. Things didn’t go so well. The first time through only the top quarter of the photo was returned. Sky and foliage, nice, but I wanted to see granddad and see what color the uniforms might be. So I tried again. This time more of the photo came back followed by an immediate program crash. Actually better than a crash – it just disappeared. I’m persistent. I tried a third time and it crashed right off. Figuring that the 5Mb+ was too big I downsized the photo to under 1Mb. This time it went through the process and rendered a complete photo. Huh? Black and white uniforms? Yeah, that could be and they looked Victorian nice. On the other hand, the town flag was rendered gray which I doubt. I started tinkering with the controls to the right and, you guessed it, crash! One more try and I was this time able to do some adjustments and now have a respectable colorized photograph of Granddad and his band.

One final picture. This was a circa 1952 family photograph. This time 6yo me was wearing a favorite plaid shirt that I remember to this day. The photo rendered and the shirt coloring was in the ballpark. I did some more tinkering and had a good Kodacolor.

I recommend this program to those who don’t mind rolling up their sleeves. Those of you who want everything cut and diced – perhaps this isn’t for you.

Tried more than 20 old black and white photos and only one worked and did a good job. The others failed or the program shut down or came back with an error saying that File Failed To Upload Please Try Again Later. Also, I did try different file formats (Jpg, Jeg ETC.) and had no success.

This has to be the easiest registration process EVER! Just copy the given code into the "register" box of the program and it's done. As to the program itself, I'm curious about how I'll be using it, since I appreciate the fineness of black + white photography; however, I've found that there are SOME snapshots can benefit from colorizing without losing their artfulness. I'm going to try it on some old family photos, landscapes, and scenes of daily life, then compare them with and without the new effect.