Palette
AI
image colorization
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
50 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 9 mixed, 5 critical, out of 88 comments about the project. Thread score +0.53.
Performance: 21 for, 3 againstIdea: 6 for, 2 againstExecution: 4 for, 0 againstPricing: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Results are realistic and impressive, especially skin tones and natural scenes
From 3 comments
Even if the results are not 100% historically perfect, 99% of the hard job is done. Skin tones, plants, skies, water... they all look incredibly good, and the object segmentation…
Valgrim on HNThank you so much Emil - I have some old photos B/W of my dad who is no longer with us and have wanted to colorize them somehow for years. The results from just dropping the…
callumprentice on HNThe ease of use,speed and accuracy are impressive. I tried doing a colorization by hand a few years ago using photoshop. It took a long time and it was not as good. Over the…
WheelsAtLarge on HN
Natural language edits and captions are useful and easy to use
From 2 comments
I was actually testing Photoshop's new colorizing filter this week, so this is timely. My first impression of Palette in comparison is that it does a comparably good job of…
jbellis on HNI love the way it finds features and labels the picture. It thinks I am a meteorologist!
JoeAltmaier on HN
Free and easy to use, emotionally moving for family photos
From 2 comments
I've never posted here before but this demands a sincere "thank you". I just colorised some family photos from the 1930s to the 80s and the results are heartwarming. Thank you…
default-user on HNWow, it’s awesome! What technologies does it use? I’ve used to restore the only photo my wife has of her father who died when she was 3yo. She almost cried seeing the colori ed…
afalzetti on HN
Objections
Colors can be washed out or wrong, e.g. fabrics and string instruments
From 2 comments
Even if the results are not 100% historically perfect, 99% of the hard job is done. Skin tones, plants, skies, water... they all look incredibly good, and the object segmentation…
Valgrim on HNI tried it on the photo linked below and it makes the string instruments look like they're made of brass. Not trying to bash it since I thought it was pretty impressive overall,…
writeslowly on HN
Old photos may be made to look dull or unhistorical
From 1 comment
Unfortunately, this has the common bias[1] with IA coloring of making old stuff look dull, reinforcing the Hollywood cliché[2]. The past was actually often very colorful. [1]:…
littlestymaar on HN
Uploading private photos raises privacy concerns, no proper privacy policy yet
From 2 comments
Nice UI, and the approach works quite well (occasional wrong choice of palette compared to ground truth). It’s kind of fun to turn my photos into B/W and run through the model to…
tanvach on HNWow, any way to run this locally? I love this technology but it would feel kinda terrible to upload a whole bunch of stuff to your site and exploit your generosity.
WrtCdEvrydy on HN
Requests
Run locally or offline
From 1 comment
Wow, any way to run this locally? I love this technology but it would feel kinda terrible to upload a whole bunch of stuff to your site and exploit your generosity.
WrtCdEvrydy on HN
Higher resolution output beyond 1920px
From 2 comments
All I can say is: very very nice (Testing on some 3d renders and some bw photos). p.s. Is output image width limited to 1920px?
brontosaurusrex on HNty!! yes, 1920x1920. i'm working on an unlimited resolution option, but it will take a few weeks.
emilwallner on HN
Colorize comic books and video frame by frame
From 2 comments
Very cool. Your results look much better than the washed out AI colorization that I've seen in the past. I think you could charge money for this service. A suggestion for…
waltbosz on HNThis works amazingly well, just putting in some of my favorite black and white scenes from movies... wow! Now I need some kind of tool that can do this on every frame of a black…
kmnc on HN
API access or licensing for other tools
From 2 comments
Any chance you would license the model for us to use with pixlr.com?
poniko on HNThis is absolutely mind-blowing to me, is this using an API of any sort? I'd love to be able to take something like my City's archive of Black & White images and colorize them.
w_for_wumbo on HN
Questions
How the model was trained and how it differs from DeOldify
From 2 comments
Can you summarize the approach you took on creating the model? Really curious!
learndeeply on HNHow does this differ from deoldify?
diamondage on HN
Whether the site is open source
From 1 comment
Open Source? Would love to see how this works and also the website.
vanillax on HN
How the captions and prompts are generated
From 1 comment
How are the prompts/captions generated? Also I love that you're using Svelte!
jaflo on HN
Alternatives named
DeOldify
From 2 comments
Awesome job! This makes me a bit envious. I am hobbyist colorizer [1] who did it the old school way (with tools like Affinity Photo and lot of manual work). I tried de-oldify and…
shubhamjain on HNHow does this differ from deoldify?
diamondage on HN
Photoshop's new colorizing filter
From 1 comment
I was actually testing Photoshop's new colorizing filter this week, so this is timely. My first impression of Palette in comparison is that it does a comparably good job of…
jbellis on HN