[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":668},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-33261494":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":50,"post_text":51,"what":52,"said":122,"maker_in_thread":252,"shape":264,"grid":268,"attempts":628,"same_week":629,"maker_shows":43,"maker_hidden":660,"reader_version":661,"card":662},"33261494","Palette","A new AI colorizer","title","Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer","https:\u002F\u002Fpalette.fm\u002F","palette.fm","emilwallner",1666184456,2022,472,120,62,2570,3,"legend","ai","image colorization","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"photo colorization","ai colorizer","colorize black and white photos","natural language image editing","loved",0.533,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},50,24,9,5,88,{"performance":37,"idea":39,"design":42,"privacy":45,"pricing":46,"execution":47,"docs":49},{"positive":38,"critical":18},21,{"positive":40,"critical":41},6,2,{"positive":43,"critical":44},1,0,{"positive":44,"critical":44},{"positive":18,"critical":44},{"positive":48,"critical":44},4,{"positive":43,"critical":44},[34,34,18,34,48,34,43,18,18,34,34,44,18,18,34,34,41,34,34,34,44,34,34,34,48,34,34,34,34,34,34,48,34,34,34,34,18,34,34,34],"Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters.\n\nLet me know what you think.\n\nYou can see some of my results on my reddit page: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fuser\u002Femilwallner\u002F?sort=top",{"problem":53,"audience":65,"pricing":78,"motivation":86,"time_to_build":92,"stack":93,"openness":119,"stage":120,"team_size":121},{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"Colorizing black and white photos without tedious manual work","commenter",[57,61],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"33263981","shubhamjain","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…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"33270899","Klaster_1","Ten years ago at my first job I used to colorize photos professionally, seeing how this tedious process has been automated away brings me the same joy as when you automate a…",{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"People restoring old family photos, photographers, and hobbyist colorizers","inferred",[69,73,74],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"33264538","callumprentice","Thank you so much Emil - I have some old photos B\u002FW of my dad who is no longer with us and have wanted to colorize them somehow for years. The results from just dropping the…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"33268287","default-user","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…",{"value":79,"source":55,"evidence":80},"Free to use; maker has not stated a business model",[81,82],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"33265796","smortaz","tested on a few pics. excellent colorization. pls provide patreon etc link so the site stays up! thxxx",{"value":87,"source":88,"evidence":89},"Maker has tinkered with AI colorization for about five years","maker",[90],{"id":91},"post",null,[94,100,104,108,112],{"value":95,"source":88,"evidence":96},"ONNX",[97],{"id":98,"by":11,"text":99},"33264411","lol, thanks! onnx, docker, and fastAPI on CPUs with AWS fargate. although i'm switching to GPUs in a month or two, so if you have any suggestions let me know.",{"value":101,"source":88,"evidence":102},"Docker",[103],{"id":98,"by":11,"text":99},{"value":105,"source":88,"evidence":106},"FastAPI",[107],{"id":98,"by":11,"text":99},{"value":109,"source":88,"evidence":110},"AWS Fargate",[111],{"id":98,"by":11,"text":99},{"value":113,"source":55,"evidence":114},"Svelte",[115],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"33269412","jaflo","How are the prompts\u002Fcaptions generated? Also I love that you're using Svelte!","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":123,"objections":155,"requests":182,"questions":219,"alternatives":242},[124,136,147],{"value":125,"source":55,"evidence":126},"Results are realistic and impressive, especially skin tones and natural scenes",[127,131,132],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"33268791","Valgrim","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…",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"33270338","WheelsAtLarge","The 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…",{"value":137,"source":55,"evidence":138},"Natural language edits and captions are useful and easy to use",[139,143],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"33267752","jbellis","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…",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"33264036","JoeAltmaier","I love the way it finds features and labels the picture. It thinks I am a meteorologist!",{"value":148,"source":55,"evidence":149},"Free and easy to use, emotionally moving for family photos",[150,151],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"33269096","afalzetti","Wow, 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…",[156,164,171],{"value":157,"source":55,"evidence":158},"Colors can be washed out or wrong, e.g. fabrics and string instruments",[159,160],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"33264188","writeslowly","I 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,…",{"value":165,"source":55,"evidence":166},"Old photos may be made to look dull or unhistorical",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"33267366","littlestymaar","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. 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Is output image width limited to 1920px?",{"id":195,"by":11,"text":196},"33264127","ty!! yes, 1920x1920. i'm working on an unlimited resolution option, but it will take a few weeks.",{"value":198,"source":55,"evidence":199},"Colorize comic books and video frame by frame",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"33263769","waltbosz","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…",{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"33265051","kmnc","This 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…",{"value":209,"source":55,"evidence":210},"API access or licensing for other tools",[211,215],{"id":212,"by":213,"text":214},"33265410","poniko","Any chance you would license the model for us to use with pixlr.com?",{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"33267862","w_for_wumbo","This 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.",[220,231,238],{"value":221,"source":55,"evidence":222},"How the model was trained and how it differs from DeOldify",[223,227],{"id":224,"by":225,"text":226},"33265037","learndeeply","Can you summarize the approach you took on creating the model? Really curious!",{"id":228,"by":229,"text":230},"33281478","diamondage","How does this differ from deoldify?",{"value":232,"source":55,"evidence":233},"Whether the site is open source",[234],{"id":235,"by":236,"text":237},"33267924","vanillax","Open Source? Would love to see how this works and also the website.",{"value":239,"source":55,"evidence":240},"How the captions and prompts are generated",[241],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},[243,248],{"value":244,"source":55,"evidence":245},"DeOldify",[246,247],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":228,"by":229,"text":230},{"value":249,"source":55,"evidence":250},"Photoshop's new colorizing filter",[251],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},{"comments":253,"answered":33,"key":254},12,[255,258,261],{"id":256,"text":257},"33264696","ty! i'm glad you enjoy the tool. As for whether or not this tool could replace a professional colorist, I think it depends on the specific project. 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