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Add realistic color to any image — in seconds

Colorize and edit photos in an online studio

Lifelike color, no editing needed

Add realistic color to black and white, sepia, or grayscale images without tedious manual colorization or complex prompting. Upload an image and let Kapwing's Colorize Photo add lifelike color while maintaining original details.

Bring old family photos to life, repurpose artistic shots, or convert archival images into vibrant social-ready pictures. Not just a filter: Kapwing's AI analyzes your image and uses context-aware color prediction to add photorealistic skin tone, historical detail, and shading.

Export high-resolution images rendered with natural color fidelity, ready to print or drop into any design project.

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Add color to images, then move to the studio to use hundreds of professional editing tools.

Fine-tune brightness, exposure, contrast, and shadows. Add text, shape, or sticker overlays. Apply filters and photo effects. Erase the background or increase photo resolution with a single click. Resize for any platform, crop, and adjust opacity and blur.

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It just works!

Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.

Eunice Park

Studio Production Manager at Formlabs

With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.

Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!

Vannesia Darby

CEO at MOXIE Nashville

Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.

Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.

Grant Taleck

Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com

It keeps getting better!

Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.

Panos Papagapiou

Managing Partner at EPATHLON

By the far the most user friendly software to use.

As a housewife at home looking to start a YouTube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.

Kerry-lee Farla

Youtuber

Kapwing is my secret weapon!

This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.

Gracie Peng

Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.

Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As an English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.

Heidi Rae

Education

Excellent subtitling features

[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!

Natasha Ball

Consultant

Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.

[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)

Mitch Rawlings

Information Services Freelancer

This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.

I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, there is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.

Dina Segovia

Virtual Freelance Worker

●Step by Step

How to Colorize Photos

Step 1
Upload
Create a chat with Kapwing's AI colorizer and click "Attach media" to upload your photo.
Step 2
Colorize image
Click the generate arrow to add color to your image.
Step 3
Edit and save
Click to download your colorized image, or keep editing by entering additional prompts.

●Thoughtfully Unique

What's different about Kapwing?

Six reasons creators stay in flow: faster edits, smarter tools, and collaboration that actually keeps projects moving.

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Collaborative

Quickly review and share feedback with your team using real-time comments in shared workspaces. Save assets to your Brand Kit for easy access.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

AI-Powered

Kapwing uses the latest advanced AI models to power generative AI and one-click editing tools.

●Just the FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

We have answers to the most common questions that our users ask.

Is the Colorize Photo tool free?

Yes, anyone can try Kapwing’s AI toolkit for free without watermarks. Our AI tools run on a credit system, with each feature costing a set number of credits. For maximum creativity and the best value, upgrade to a Pro account to unlock the full power of AI-driven content creation.

How to colorize images with Kapwing

To add color to images with Kapwing, open the AI colorizer and click "Attach media" to upload your photo. Add a prompt if you want to specify any colors, like "Make the dress red." Then click the arrow at the right to colorize your photo.

Download the color photo as a JPG by clicking the arrow, or keep chatting to adjust the colors. If you want to fine-tune your image, you can click "Move to studio" for access to additional manual and AI editing tools.

Can I colorize photos on my phone?

Yes, you can add color to images on your phone by opening the AI Colorize Photo tool in your mobile browser. Press to upload your image, then enter a prompt with any specific instructions you want to add. Click the arrow at the right to generate your colorized image. Keep editing with additional prompts, or click to download your image to your phone.

Can I add color to black and white images?

Yes, you can colorize any image, including black and white, sepia, and greyscale pictures.

What's the difference between colorizing and increasing saturation?

Colorizing and increasing saturation are different processes that start with differences in the original image. Increasing saturation simply boosts the intensity of colors that are already present in an image. If a photo is black and white, there are no colors to enhance, so adjusting saturation won’t add any new color.

Colorizing uses AI to intelligently add realistic color to a black-and-white photo. The system analyzes the image, recognizes elements like skin, sky, clothing, and backgrounds, and applies natural, context-aware tones while preserving lighting, shadows, and detail.

In short, if you want to enhance existing color, use Kapwing's Saturate Image tool. If you want to create color in an image, Colorize Photo is the best tool for you.

What AI models does the colorizer use?

Kapwing's add color to image AI tool uses the latest advanced AI models, including Seedream, Google's Nano Banana, and GPT Image. You can choose your preferred model by adjusting your model preferences in the AI prompt box, or let Kapwing's AI select the best model for you.