One-stop service for restoring and coloring old photos: "travel through time and space" without PS

Some people like to make digital photos look old and restore the texture of film cameras, while others want to restore old photos and keep them forever.

Recently, vivo and OPPO have successively launched old photo restoration functions, and it is very timely to release them on Children's Day. Many people joked that they can use their mobile phones to set up a stall to repair old photos for people.

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In fact, the topic of old photo restoration has been popular for a while. People have restored their childhood photos or stills of celebrities, and the old photos have been circulated on the Internet in a clearer state. Even some black and white photos can be re-colored, as if they were taken back in time.

Brigitte Lin

In fact, this is all thanks to the AI ​​algorithm. Simply put, it allows the neural network to learn the common characteristics of face photos and perform noise reduction through the algorithm. Now, through many free apps and online tools, one-click repair can be achieved.

Google Photos "Photo Scanner"

The first step is to digitize the paper photos. You can use Google's "Photo Scanner" tool. Just locate the four corners of the photo according to the prompts, and you can convert a paper photo into an electronic photo for easy sharing and permanent preservation.

Meitu Xiuxiu's "Old Photo Restoration" method of restoring old photos to high definition can be done with photo editing tools, such as Meitu Xiuxiu, in addition to some mobile phones. It can improve the image quality and process blurred and out-of-focus photos.

Tik Tok "Old Photo Optimization"

There is a template for optimizing old photos in the album function of Tik Tok. One photo can be repaired at a time, and the final result is a video.

Some old black and white photos can also be revived through AI technology. We have introduced many such tools before, and here we recommend two good ones.

Baidu "colorize black and white images"

Baidu's tool is fast and allows you to upload photos directly on the web page.

DeOldify

This tool called DeOldify is more detailed. It only processes the color of the photo, and the clarity remains unchanged, so it is best used in conjunction with the above repair tool.

It should be noted that the principle of AI coloring is only to assign the most reasonable color to the corresponding parts, and it cannot achieve 100% restoration.

The most important role of image restoration and black-and-white photo coloring is to free us from the limitations of the shooting technology at the time and use technology to restore the real scene as much as possible. Of course, as mentioned at the beginning, the texture of old photos is also irreplaceable. There is no good or bad technology. The key is how to use it.