Colorize and Tint your Photo, Picture or Image

How to use Piccyfix to Colorize and Tint your photo, image or picture, FREE online

Starting from the Home Page, choose your photo, then choose   Run All wizard Steps, and the fourth step after uploading will allow you to do the colorize and tint your photo.

If there are any other wizard steps that you want to skip, just choose the 'Original' picture on that step. You will end up on the Generate page which generates your final colorized image.

Colorize and Tint Guidelines

Easy - just choose the color or option you want, then you can adjust the Brightness and Contrast in later steps.

Piccyfix now has 2 different ways to change the colour of your piccy.

Colorize adds more of your chosen color into the image (eg more red), but leaves the other colours there, so it is still a 'Color' picture.

Pur-Tint removes the other colors in your image before adding the color you want, which makes it more like a Black and White picture, but tinted with your color.

For Sepia, Pur-Tint and Colorize, the 'medium' color strength is shown at first, but you can change the color strength if you want, to make it eg. 'more red' or 'less red'.

You might be after something subtle, or something in-your-face. Again, have fun combining this with a strong contrast, and adding in an effect (eg. Sketchy or Grainy), and you will get some nice results.

Colorize and Tint Explanation

This step allows you to transform the color of the original image to either Black and White, Negative or Sepia-tone, or Red, Green, Blue or Purple to get a nice arty effect very easily.

The Black and White transformation is straightforward - if the Original image is either Color or Sepia, it will be made Black and White by taking the colors and turning them into shades of grey. Which results in a Black and White photo - those things that existed before Color pictures were even possible. The first useable process for color photographs was invented exactly 100 years ago - in 1907 by the Lumiere Brothers.

Sepia Tone (turning the photo into shades of brown) was originally a printing method from the 1880's which used (unbelievably) the pigment from Cuttlefish to get the effect. Sepia gives the photo a real 'old-fashioned' look to a photo, and will give you a nice picture for a photo album or photo frame if you print it outwith a good printer and professional quality printer paper.

The quality of the Sepia tone images generated from Piccyfix is actually quite high.. it takes a lot of number crunching to generate them all. This is why the generation of the sepia images 'Color' page takes so long to draw. The final generation of a Sepia image will also take a very long time, for the same reason.

The Negative transformation is a lot of fun.. no matter what the Original image - Color, Sepia or Black and White, the colors (or shades of grey) will be completely reversed. You can get some nice freaky effects with this one, especially if the Original has lots of contrast and/or colors in it.

The 'Negative' gives the impression of looking at an old film negative, which was the means used to generate the image for printing it, until digital cameras, webcams and mobile phones came along. It's still used by some professional photographers.

However, now professional image processing/enhancement software is widely used by amateurs and professionals, there are very few digital effects that the old fashioned process of 'developing and printing' could do with with film, that image processing software cannot simulate and improve on.

So apart from amateur hobbyists, and professionals who find the new stuff too difficult (can't blame 'em..) old fashioned film photography is likely to die out completely.