Hand Colored AI Algorithm

Here is a scan of my Grandfather in his French Foreign Legion uniform a year before he died of Pneumonia at the age of 27, around 1927.  Antibiotics had not yet been invented.  My mother and her twin sister were 3 yrs old.

This website will apply an artificial intelligence algorithm to "hand color" or "colorize it.

https://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/

Here is what the algo did with it...

Not great, but interesting nevertheless...  As one of your projects, try this yourself.  Take one of your pictures and in photoshop, make it grayscale by choosing Image>Mode>grayscale, save it as a .jpg and upload it to the site... then click download when there after a few seconds.....

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