Your images are processed in your browser — Cloud HD (Pro, opt-in) is the only exception
No. 06 — AI Tools · Cloud HDPro · on our GPU

Black-and-white, now in color.

Upload a monochrome photo and our server returns it in colour, at full resolution, in seconds.

Pro · Cloud HDDeleted on completionUp to 25 MB · 24 MP
Black-and-white photograph of a long-haired tabby cat, before colorization
Sample — processed with ddcolor-modelscope 8565d1f7c686
Colorize a photoCloud HD · our GPU

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The colours are the AI’s best guess — it cannot know the real ones, so hair, skin, clothing and backgrounds may come out different from life.

How a Cloud HD run works

  1. Pick a black-and-white photo — JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels.
  2. It goes to our GPU for this one run, and nothing is kept afterwards.
  3. Download the colour version at full resolution. One run of your monthly cloud allowance.

The photo is uploaded for this run only, deleted on completion, and never used to train anything — unlike the rest of MiniPx, this one tool runs on our GPU because the model is too heavy for a browser, and the page says so plainly instead of pretending otherwise.

What people colorize

Old family photographs

Bring pre-colour prints and scanned negatives back to life for albums and framing. Related tool →

Archive and heritage scans

Colorize digitised archive material while the original scan stays untouched on your disk. Related tool →

Black-and-white film shots

See how a monochrome shot reads in colour before you commit to a print. Related tool →

Restoring faded memories

Pair colorization with upscaling to make a small old print large and vivid. Related tool →

Runs in
Our server, with Cloud HD
Upload
Yes — the photo is uploaded for the run and deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours
Signup
A Pro account
Watermark
None added by MiniPx
Limits
150 cloud runs a month on Pro Monthly, 200 on Pro Annual — including 10 HD runs (4 MP upscales, object removal, colorized restores)
Output
A file you download when the run finishes

AI Photo Colorizer — Pro, on our server

Colorizing a photograph is a prediction, and it is worth being honest about that. The model behind this page, DDColor, has seen enough of the world to know that grass tends green, skies tend blue and skin tends warm — so it paints each region of your monochrome photo with the colour it considers most plausible. For most photographs the result reads as naturally as the sample above, which was produced by this exact pipeline and is labelled with the exact model version that made it. For a specific dress, a specific car, a specific front door, the model is guessing — a beautiful, well-informed guess, but not a historical record.

This is one of the four Cloud HD tools that run on our server, and the page treats that as a disclosure, not a footnote. Every other tool on this site — the background remover, the upscaler, the compressors — processes your image on your own device by default, and your file stays in your browser unless you are Pro and switch Cloud HD on for a run. Colorization is different because the model is simply too large to ship to a browser. So your photo is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed once, and deleted on completion — in all cases within 24 hours, with the input gone before your download link is even issued. It is never used to train anything, ours or anyone else’s.

Resolution is preserved. The colorized image comes back at the same pixel dimensions you uploaded, up to 24 megapixels. If your source is a small old scan, run it through the upscaler afterwards on your own device — the two tools compose well, and only this one involves an upload.

Old prints deserve a little preparation. Scan at 600 DPI if you can, crop the scanner bed border with the crop tool, and leave dust exactly where it is — the colorizer copes with grain and scratches better than most cleanup filters do, and every cleanup pass before colorization is a pass that can smear the detail the model reads colour from.

What it costs, in plain numbers. Cloud runs are part of MiniPx Pro: 150 runs a month on the Monthly plan, 200 on Annual, shared across all server-side AI tools, with the meter shown before every run and on your account page — along with which model version processed each job. Nothing is charged for a failed run.

Other pages mount this same tool for specific jobs, such as a colourise photo page for British spelling searches, a black and white to color converter and a guide to how to add color to a black and white photo.

How it works

  1. Open the colorizer: Go to minipx.com/colorize-photo. The before/after sample shows the exact pipeline output.
  2. Choose a photo: Pick a black-and-white JPEG, PNG or WebP up to 25 MB. Pro accounts see the upload button; the photo uploads over an encrypted connection.
  3. Let the server colorize it: The DDColor model runs on our GPU server. Usually under 90 seconds — the first run of the day can take up to 3 minutes.
  4. Download the result: The colorized image comes back at full resolution. Your uploaded file is deleted before the download link reaches you.

Frequently asked questions

Does the photo leave my device?
For this tool, yes — colorization runs a model too heavy for a browser, so the photo is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our server, and deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours. It is never used to train anything.
How long is my photo kept?
It is deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours. The result download link itself expires after a few minutes, and the input file is removed before that link is even handed to you.
What does the AI actually do?
The model (DDColor) predicts plausible colours for each region of a monochrome image from what it learned about the world — skies, skin, foliage, fabric. It is a well-informed guess, not a historical record: the colour of a specific dress or car may differ from reality.
What files work?
JPEG, PNG and WebP, up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels. The result comes back as a lossless WebP at the same resolution as your input (a PNG if a side is over 16,383 pixels).
Is it free?
The sample above is free to explore, and it was produced by the exact pipeline your photo would run through. Running it on your own photo is part of MiniPx Pro, which includes a monthly allowance of cloud runs across all server-side AI tools.
Why is this tool Pro when the background remover is free?
The free tools run on your own device at no cost to anyone. Colorization needs a GPU server we pay for by the second, so it is metered through the Pro plan — 150 cloud runs a month on Monthly, 200 on Annual.

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