Colorize-rating
July 8, 2008
Black and white photos coloring is not as popular with developers as other areas and our rating is short this time. Only three programs fall into the category: Neuraltek BlackMagic, Recolored tool, and AKVIS Coloriage.
Below the rating you will find examples and comments.
Coloriage
June 29, 2008
The next program in the row of black and white coloring programs is Coloriage - a plug-in to a number of image editing programs and a standalone program - issued by Akvis known also by a number of quite useful programs. Coloriage performance is based it seems on the same algorithms as Recolored. At least the workflow is very close and to color an object you don’t need to manipulate your mouse in order to smoothly outline the edge.
Recolored
June 28, 2008
The next article in the series is devoted to Recolored - a standalone program designed for coloring black and white images and/or changing the color of any digital image and performing partial desaturation.
Recolored uses an algorithm that not only recolores objects according to their luminance structure but can define edges of the objects and thus considerably save time and effort of the user.
Black Magic
June 22, 2008
The coloring of black and white photos has been performed quite a long time ago when digital photography has not been heard of yet. And all this time the job demanded skill and precision.
In the new age of digital images and Photoshop we still want to make some of our old black and white photos be seen in color. The process is still to a great extent manual and only a few software developers make attempts at automating it.