# Pretty good colorizing software for b&w photos

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-colorizing-software-for-b-w-photos/346164
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 26, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-colorizing-software-for-b-w-photos/346164 "2006-02-26T07:57:56Z")
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### Author: ![Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_Handle_the_Truth)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-colorizing-software-for-b-w-photos/346164/1 "2006-02-26T07:57:56Z")

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Available as a 21-day free trial from [www.recolored.com](http://www.recolored.com), it’s really easy to use; you just roughly outline the areas of the photo in the preferred color, press a button, and presto, it’s in color. Here’s [an example](http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/8488/shermancolor1jd.jpg) of what took me about half and hour to do.

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### Author: ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretty-good-colorizing-software-for-b-w-photos/346164/2 "2006-02-27T01:53:20Z")

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Thanks for that link. I have some old pictures of my Dad taken during WWII and will try it.