Payment protectionDetails
- Revisions within the package are free.
- If you do not respond within 3 days of delivery, the work is accepted automatically.
The money is reserved when you pay and released only once you accept the work.
Example result
Restored family photo from the 1950s
Before
After
File: PNG, about 1.5 megapixels. Small details can differ slightly from the original.
Client: a family preparing a gift for their grandparents' anniversary. Task: remove scratches, stains and the crease, bring back sharpness and add natural colour, keeping the faces as they are.
The client and all details are made up.
About this service
We turn black-and-white and sepia photos into natural colour: skin, hair, eyes, clothes, the sky and the room around. Real colours can't be read from a grey print, so we pick believable ones for the era and follow everything you tell us, from a blue dress to brown eyes, and we clean scratches and dust on the way. Each picture is made from one of your photos as a PNG of about 1.5 megapixels, good for screens, posts and small prints but not for large ones.
What is included
- What you getYou get 1, 3 or 5 colourized pictures as PNG files of about 1.5 megapixels, one per photo in your package. With one photo in a bigger package you get colour variants to choose from.
- Natural skin tonesWarm, even skin without a painted look
- Your colours firstEyes, hair and clothes as the family remembers
- Period coloursBelievable fabrics, cars and interiors for the decade
- Cleaned along the wayScratches and dust removed before colouring
- Variants to chooseOne photo in a 3-photo package gives three colourings
How it works
- 1UploadYou send the photos and the colours you know
- 2ColouringWe clean the photo and add natural colour
- 3Choose and reviseYou pick the version you like and ask for changes
What we need from you
Up to 5 black-and-white or sepia photos as PNG, JPEG or WebP, as sharp as you can get them. List any colours you know or want (eyes, hair, a uniform, a car, the wallpaper), the country and decade, and where the colour photos will go.
We will ask you:
- What is in the photo, and from which decade?
- Which colours do you know for sure?
- Should we also fix damage?
Compare packages
| Packages | Basic1 photo in colour$7 | Standard3 photos in colour$15 | Premium5 photos in colour$25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadline | 1 day | 1 day | 2 days |
| Revisions | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Photos | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Format | PNG | PNG | PNG |
| Colourizing | on request | on request | on request |
| Order Basic | Order Standard | Order Premium |
Payment protection
You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.
- Fixed priceThe package price does not change after you pay.
- The money is reservedWhen you pay, the amount is only reserved. It is released to the service once you accept the work.
- Checked before deliveryEvery result goes through a quality check before it reaches you, and you see it on the order page before accepting it.
- Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
- Acceptance after 3 daysIf within 3 days of delivery you neither accept the work nor ask for changes, it is accepted automatically. If you write in the order chat after delivery, the order waits; once we answer, we may start the 3 days again and will say so in the chat.
- Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
Questions and answers
How do you know what colours to use?
We don't know the real ones; a grey print only shows how light or dark each part was. We choose colours that fit the period and the light, and anything you tell us takes priority.
Will the photo still look like the original?
Yes, the people and the scene stay the same, but the picture is redrawn, so small details, signs and faces can shift slightly. If a face looks less like the person, ask for a revision.
Can I get a black-and-white copy back too?
Each picture in your package is one result, so say in the brief if you want one of them restored in black and white and the others in colour.
Which photos can't you colourize?
We don't colourize document photos or papers and never change certificates, IDs or receipts. No nudity, no faces swapped for a celebrity or anyone else, and only photos you have the right to use, with the agreement of the people shown. Heavily damaged areas are recreated during colouring, not restored exactly.