How to Colorize Photos with AI - Stable Diffusion + ControlNet Tutorial 2023

There's much easier ways to colour a photo than that.

Perfect tutorial ! You speak like an airplane pilot but with a better mic. Thanks !!!

how bout DALL-E 3

Wanted to thank you for this video. I have been having some good fun digging up historical images and updating not just the colors but also dropping in modern humans.

Looks like the point of eye direction is different, while the original eyes are straight as the head lead, the colorized image sees to another direction

Well a great great video but now its seems some things have been changed, there are newer version with newer options that not match at some steps. If even have a patient to make a video of newer version and with what files are used where will be great. Keep it up !

This was very helpful, thank you

You could try duplicating the photo in affinity photo then add a high pass filter to it and change the blend mode to overlay. I usually do a merge down and repeat the process 2 or more times. This will really shapen the image and make the lines pop out in the photo. It should help create a better cammy for the image. If you overt to it it could cause some color bleed but since you just using it for the cammy it shouldn't be a problem.

You deserve a lot more subs. Fantastic to-the-point informative video.
Great results you got. The challenge is to do the same with family photos as it tends to change the subject far too much.

best jumping point is hide your face

tutorial is very wrong!!!, he choose strange method when it can be done in 5 steps

Thank you! I was able to recolor a few pictures of my grandparents and a picture of my uncle as a kid!

Fascinating stuff, but the end result looks absolutely nothing like the original individual. It’s a handy tutorial for this kind of work but the truth is nothing competes with photoshop for professional photo restoration.

I try to follow along but my subject doesn't pose the same way as in the controlnet picture, its a closeup so its only using openpose face pretty much.

Well it's been just two months and the very first link already leading to noVAE version which makes most of this tutorial irrelevant...

It would be a great if you could make this same tutorial but with the reference only control as well, I'm sure you'll get great results in the process of colorization.

Very nice to see all the detail and especially how to set SD right.

I can't get the VAE. I gave up! so incredibly frustrating. Why does it have to be so complicated, nobody wants to have to read a page of text just to follow along with a video. Every other page on civitai has a clear link to other files you need. You don't have to plough through a load of text and still get nowhere. There's nothing to even say it was removed. I have a life I don't want to spend forever reading text.

I have Cyberlink's Photo director that does not seem to have Liquify. What exactly this does. We can't layer the original with SD generated one. It does not match exactly. What will make SD create an image that is spot on match , face feature by face feature

Yes, I installed it. But during the installation of Pix2Pix, when I search, nothing comes up. Last time I downloaded it from another place and the whole program ran into an error problem and gave many errors. I had to delete it. But I need it... There are a lot of old black and white photos that need to be in quality and color . plz help
There are thousands of low-quality black and white photos that should be colored and high-quality. without changing face And I was confused
I did this by controlnet. The process was slow... I was hoping for a faster and better way