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Add natural colour to old photos. Colourise black-and-white shots.

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Colourise a photo in three steps

  1. 01

    Open Morphic

    Sign up and start creating on a free-flowing, infinite visual canvas.

  2. 02

    Add your old photo

    Drop in a black-and-white, sepia, or faded photo you want in colour.

  3. 03

    Add natural colour

    Ask for realistic colour. The real faces and detail hold while believable tones fill the frame.

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Black and white to colour, before and after

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Use cases

Old family photos in colour

Bring black-and-white family portraits to life. Faces, expressions, and detail stay exactly as they were, while natural skin tones and colours fill in around them.

Old family photos in colour

Colourise a historical archive

Add period-appropriate colour to wartime, street, and archive photos. The original composition and grain hold, so a historical record reads clearly without losing its authenticity.

Colourise a historical archive

Sepia into natural colour

Turn a warm sepia print into fuller, truer colour. The tool reads the tones that remain and rebuilds a natural palette while the faces and setting stay intact.

Sepia into natural colour

A whole box, one look

Colourise an entire box of old photos in one consistent treatment. Save the recipe as a Workflow and rerun it, so the full set shares one natural, even colour.

A whole box, one look

Photos you can colourise

Different eras, subjects, and light. Open any prompt to tweak it and colourise your own.
A 1950s black-and-white family portrait shown in natural colour

Family portrait

Colourise this 1950s black-and-white family portrait with natural skin tones and warm indoor light

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A wartime soldier photo colourised with muted period tones

Wartime photo

Add believable colour to this wartime soldier photo, muted period tones, keep the original detail

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A faded sepia wedding photo rendered in natural colour

Sepia wedding

Turn this faded sepia wedding photo into natural colour, soft daylight, gentle skin tones

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A vintage black-and-white street scene shown in realistic colour

Vintage street

Colourise this old street scene with realistic colours, weathered buildings and daylight sky

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A faded grandparents portrait colourised with warm natural tones

Grandparents

Add natural colour to this faded grandparents portrait, warm skin tones, keep the real faces

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An antique black-and-white landscape photo shown in natural colour

Antique landscape

Colourise this antique landscape photo, green foliage and soft blue sky, gentle natural light

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Related workflows

Cinematic storyboard

Cinematic storyboard

Share a scene description with character references. Get a full storyboard with shot angles and mood.

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Chibi sprite animation

Chibi sprite animation

Turn any photo or description into an animated chibi sprite. Dance, jump, wave, attack, and more.

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Messages to cinematic scene

Messages to cinematic scene

Dramatize any text conversation into a cinematic multi-shot video.

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Title sequence

Title sequence

Generate a professional film title card from scratch, with optional cinematic animation.

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3x3 storyboard

3x3 storyboard

Feed in a single image. Get 9 cinematic beats laid out as a 3x3 storyboard grid.

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Expressions

Expressions

Take any character image and generate 6 distinct facial expressions on a single reference sheet.

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All on Morphic

Your complete photo-colourising stack

Models

Nano Banana 2, Flux 2 Pro, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Grok Imagine, Recraft V4 Pro, and Seedream 5. Pick the look and swap mid-project.

Real detail held intact

Colourise with image-to-image, so the faces, grain, and composition of your original photo stay recognizable. It adds colour, never a new person.

Natural, period tones

Add believable colour that suits the era, from muted wartime shots to warm family portraits. A plausible reconstruction that reads true to the photo.

Workflows

Save a colourise recipe as a Workflow. Rerun it, share the link, or favorite it. One even look across a whole box of old photos.

Simple pricing

Get started for free today, with the option to upgrade or cancel anytime.

Basic

$9/ month
billed as $0 per year

900 monthly credits

1 user only

All models

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Standard

$24/ month
billed as $0 per year

3200 monthly credits

1 user only

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Workflows

Pro

$45/ month
billed as $0 per year

6200 shared monthly credits

1 user

+ up to 4 more at extra cost

All models

Workflows

Pro Max

$170/ month
billed as $0 per year

24000 shared monthly credits

1 user

+ up to 9 more at extra cost

All models

Workflows

Enterprise

For higher limits

Custom

pricing and billing terms

High-volume credits
Custom seat limits
All models
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Pricing Gradient

Free

For playing around

$0

forever free

Up to 20 credits
1 user only
Limited models
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FAQs

How does AI colourise a photo?
It reads a black-and-white or faded photo and adds believable colour with image-to-image. The real faces, detail, and composition stay put, and only colour is added on top. Skin, clothing, foliage, and sky pick up natural tones, so a grey portrait reads as a full-colour photo without redrawing the person.
Are the colours the exact original ones?
No. The colour is a plausible reconstruction, not a record of the true original colours. A black-and-white photo holds no colour data, so the model infers likely tones from context, such as skin, sky, grass, and common materials. The result looks natural and period-appropriate, but treat a specific shade as an informed guess rather than proof.
Can I colourise a faded or sepia photo, not just black-and-white?
Yes. Faded snapshots and sepia prints both work as the starting image. The tool reads the tones that remain and rebuilds natural colour across the frame, so a warm sepia wedding photo or a washed-out 1970s snapshot comes back with fuller, truer colour while the original detail holds.
Will it keep the real faces and detail?
Yes. Image-to-image adds colour over the photo you upload rather than generating a new person. Facial features, expressions, grain, and background detail stay recognizable, so a grandparent portrait still looks like that grandparent, only in colour. It restores tone, not identity.
Can I colourise a whole box of old photos in one look?
Yes. Run each photo through the same colourise step and they come back in a consistent palette instead of a patchwork of styles. Save the recipe as a Workflow and rerun it across an archive, so a full box of family or historical photos shares one natural, even colour treatment.
What kinds of old photos can I colourise?
Family portraits, wedding photos, wartime and historical shots, vintage street scenes, old class photos, antique landscapes, period buildings, and vintage car photos all colourise well. Anything black-and-white, sepia, or badly faded is a good candidate. Upload the photo and add natural colour while the original stays intact.

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