colourising b/w photos with AI

[ge_rik]

I've been playing around with getting ChatGPT to colourise some Southwold Railway photos.

Eg

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Rik

[ge_rik]

I had to tell it that the loco should be GER blue

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And then tell it to remove the GER lettering

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Interesting it's also removed the caption from the original postcard


Rik

[ge_rik]

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I wanted to change the colour of the loco in the shed but I've now exceeded my daily limit for the freebie processing

Rik

[philipy]

Looks good Rik. I did some playing with colourising back when I built the Chingford contractors loco, it wasn't bad but I think things have moved on since then. I actually used the colourising feature of "Find My Past" for that, which was the only easily available one at the time.

I notice on your first set of pictures that it has actually coloured the "green" spectacle in blue, which is of course correct but it could easily have missed that one!