Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning
As a professional photo editor and historian, colorized photos really agitate me. I'm all for the creation of new ways to get people to engage with historical primary documentation, but the nuance that these colorizations are interpretations gets lost immediately.Do an image search for "D-Day in color" and try to tell me which results are original color negatives and which are colorizations made by teenagers.I'm also a little confused as to why colorizations always aim to restore color to the equivalent of a faded color negative, with muted tonality and grain. Human logic is funny.