Comment by IvanK_net

5 hours ago

Grayscale cameras are not that much cheaper than color cameras. And if you decided to use a grayscale camera on purpose, you probably do not care about the color information (which would be totally "made up" by the colorizing algorithm).

Also, if there are only grayscale photos of you, you were probably born before 1900, and all your friends or your children (who might want to colorize your photo) are probably dead, too.

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sophacles  5 hours ago

What does the existence of a color photograph of my grandmother as an old woman have to do with my desire to colorize a grayscale photo of her as a child? Or colorize the photos of her wedding?

It's a very strange argument to make: there exist some photos therefore other photos may not be colorized!

  • IvanK_net  4 hours ago

    Did you colorize grayscale photos of your grandmothers wedding?

    Seeing that a "neat tool" exists and using that "neat tool" are two diffrent things. Google Glass was neat, too.

    • JoshTriplett  3 hours ago

      Is there a particular reason you resent what other people enjoy researching and spending time on, enough so to post all this?

    • sophacles  3 hours ago

      I have not yet, because my uncle hasn't scanned those photos yet. I have colorized the pictures of my grandmother as a child, and some previously unmentioned ones of the farm my grandfather grew up on. I've also colorized some photos of ancestors that no one alive this century has ever met.

      Just because you don't want to use a tool, it doesn't mean others also won't.