There’s something about black and white that keeps history at a distance. I used AI to colorize a series of old public domain photos—just to see what would change. The results were a mix of surprising ...

Imagine stepping into the year 1912, not through dusty textbooks and black-and-white photos, but in full color. These 20 colorized images offer a rare chance to see the past as it really looked, with ...

Marina Amaral has been fascinated by history and photography for as long as she can remember. As a child she taught herself Photoshop by watching tutorials on YouTube. Five years ago, the budding ...

When those first few patches of color begin to spread across a black and white photo, “that’s the magical moment,” for artist Jakob Lagerweij. Maybe it starts in the eyes, or the hands, or the face, ...

When a lot of people take history courses, it feels as if the past is so far away, especially when you look at black-and-white photos. But now a group on Reddit called Colorized History is making ...

These colorized versions of black and white photographs allow you to look at a piece of history with a different eye. Before photos were collected on your phone they were taken on a camera, and before ...

When black-and-white photographs are colorized, the subject in the image looks more “real.” This makes sense: Most of us experience our surroundings in color, and when rendered in monochrome, the ...

An urban legend tells the tale of Google promising a cool feature for its Photos application: the magic ability to turn your old black-and-white photos into colorful pics. Google’s magnificent dataset ...