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Convert Black and White Photo to Color

Turn black and white photo into color online free in seconds with Fotor's AI photo colorizer. Upload your B&W photo and let our tool add natural, realistic colors while restoring damaged details.

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Photo restoration and colorization original image featuring a woman with pearl necklace
Photo restoration and colorization result featuring a woman with pearl necklace

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  • Top AI image models

    Different Colorization Models

    Select the desired model to effectively restore and colorize black and white photos.

  • Precise controlled AI image editing capability

    Natural Colorization Effect

    Give your B&W photos natural, lifelike color based on real logic.

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    HD Colorization Results

    Get high-quality colored pictures with restored details for your creative projects.

Unlock Creative Usage of Black and White to Color Converter

Turn an old bw photo of a family portrait into lifelike colors

Revive Family Memories

Everyday users can colorize old family photos like grandparents' wedding pictures or childhood snapshots, helping younger generations connect with their family's past.

Convert a black and white historical photo into color

Reimagine the Past

Museum staff, curators or educators can bring black-and-white historical photos into color, such as wartime images or early city life, which helps make archival visuals more vivid and accessible for display, storytelling or education.

Convert a sepia photo of a historical building with yellow and brownish tones into vivid lifelike colors

Restore Historical Buildings

Add color to archival photos of historic buildings to visualize their original looks. Useful for research, restoration references, or museums' displays.

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Colorize Sketches and Illustrations

Turn black-and-white sketches, children's drawings, or coloring book pages into colored images. It is perfect for educators, parents or artistic creators who want to enhance visual materials.

Add color to old film featuring a hugging couple

Colorize Classic Film Stills

Image creators or movie fans can convert black-and-white movie stills to color for creative projects or retrospectives, offering or enjoying a fresh perspective on classic cinema without altering the original composition.

Refresh old and BW portrait featuring an old woman

Refresh Old Portraits

Add natural color to old portraits of family members, historical figures or vintage fashion models. Restore facial detail and natural skin tones in vintage studio portraits and personal keepsake photos.

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Turn a bnw classic lady portrait image to color
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How to Add Color to a Black and White Photo?

  • Upload a Photo

    Upload your black and white photo to our free online black and white to color converter. Supported formats: PNG, JPG, JPEG, WebP, and more.

  • Colorize Photo

  • Download Colorized Image

Colorize photo in a natural realistic way with Fotor black and white to colour photo converter

Convert Black and White Photo to Color Naturally with Different Models

We offer two photo colorization models, which have been trained on millions of photographs, to turn black and white photo into color at different levels. Whichever model you choose, it can intelligently analyze the context of your image to predict the ideal colors and generate hues and shades to match the scene. Try Fotor to rediscover the vibrant colors hidden in your BnW pictures and enhance photos in a few clicks.

Auto repair and colorize old photos featuring a family

Colorize Photo with Auto AI Restoration

More than just adding colors to black and white photos, our AI image colorizer also repairs and upscales images, efficiently fixing imperfections like scratches, spots, dust and stains. Also, it can unblur images and improve your photo quality to make them look better.

Meanwhile, feel free to use our AI editing tools to further polish your colorized photos. For example, use our AI replace tool to further adjust color through your natural language. Try our clone stamp tool to further remove small scratches or stains that may still be on your result.

Why Choose Our AI Black and White to Color Converter?

  • Easy photo colorization

    Easy Photo Colorization

    With an intuitive interface, Fotor lets you colorize photos within three steps. No Photoshop skills are needed to convert black and white photos to color.

  • Realistic AI action simulation

    Realistic AI Color Simulation

    Powered by advanced AI technology, we add stunningly natural, lifelike colors to photos that preserve the original essence.

  • Auto image quality improvement

    Auto Image Quality Improvement

    Automatically colorize B&W photos while improving overall quality and clarity. Remove blurriness, scratches, and stains to restore old pictures with no hassle.

  • Multiple formats support

    Multiple Formats Support

    Our image colorizer supports a variety of image formats, including PNG, JPG, JPEG, WebP, and more. Fulfill all your image colorization needs.

What Our Customers Say About Fotor Photo Colorizer?

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We were planning a memorial ceremony for my grandfather and wanted to restore some black and white, very old pictures. I saw a good review on this app so I downloaded and used it. OMG, it brought precious moments back to color in a very fast way. Worth every penny since it restores and does a whole lot more.

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Fotor is another one of my top programs for colorizing old photos, as it delivers incredibly smooth results. Additionally, it offers a wide range of filters and effects, which let me get creative while preparing my family photos. I decided to add subtle scratches and slightly overexposed areas to the images for a vintage touch.

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Very fast results. Colorful photos, useable for my film photo story board, attractive to the actors and crew.

Photo Colorizer FAQs

What is an AI photo colorizer?

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