Colorize Family Photos — Pro, on our server
Triage before you spend a single run. An inherited box is rarely uniform: a dozen studio portraits, a run of holiday snaps, and a long tail of blurry distant groups nobody can identify. Colorization rewards faces at a usable size and punishes everything shot from across a field, because grey with no discernible subject gives DDColor nothing to anchor on and it returns a wash of muted browns and greens. Lay the box out, mark the twenty or thirty pictures that people actually ask about, and start there. The rest can wait — the allowance resets every month and nothing in the box is getting older any faster.
An album is arithmetic, not a single decision. Pro Monthly carries 150 Cloud HD runs a month, Pro Annual 200, with a 30-runs-per-hour ceiling and no rollover past the 1st. A two-hundred-photo album is therefore two evenings on Annual, or a month and a bit on Monthly, and that is fine — it is also two evenings of looking at each result properly instead of accepting a folder of automated output you never checked. If a run fails it is not charged, so a cold start or a dropped connection costs you time and nothing else. Prices exclude tax, and plan changes and cancellations go through contact@minipx.com so a person handles them.
Capture the whole set the same way, or the set will not match. Each run is independent — the model has no memory of the photo you did five minutes ago — so a consistent input is the only lever you have on a consistent output. Scan the whole album in one session at one setting, or photograph every print in the same daylight at the same angle. Trim scanner edges with the crop tool and shrink oversized scans with the compressor if any of them exceed the 25 MB limit; both run on your own machine, so they cost nothing and send nothing anywhere. When faces are soft as well as grey, the face restorer can colorize in the same pass, and the portrait page covers what to expect from skin tones specifically.
These are relatives, so the handling matters. Colorization is the one part of this workflow that leaves your device: the photo is uploaded to our Cloud HD server for that run, encrypted in transit, processed in the United States on Cloudflare R2 storage and a Modal GPU, then deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours. It is never used to train anything and no human at MiniPx looks at it. Every other tool you touch on the way — cropping, compressing, converting — never uploads at all. And keep the originals: the colorized PNG is for the mantelpiece and the family group chat, while the untouched scan is the record your grandchildren will want.