Yeah, I noticed that too .. the blue tint in what should be the whites of his eyes. I probably picked the wrong color for that. Codijy has many "Color Libraries" based on an element that you wish to colorize. The attachment shows the many different "eye white" colors available in the Color Library named: "Eyes: The white." Note that there are many more whites available with the down slider, which don't show in the picture below. Trying to find the "right" shade of white is challenging...a lot of trial and error...and if one recognizes a wrong color or placement, there is always an UNDO function. So, I likely picked a wrong one that was too blue.

Yup...just doubled checked and indeed, it was the wrong eye white color, as shown in the 3rd image below. That can be corrected so long as one saves the "document" which is all the colors and positions of the edit session.

Having researched and tried a few of the free online colorization programs, I find that they deliver a less-than-desirable result. A few weeks ago, I bought the software “Codijy Colorizer Pro” for Windows for $50. Been having a lot of fun with this app. The attached pictures range from 1900s – 1975 of Joan’s (my wife) side of the family. All were original Black & White scanned from the paper print, as digital didn’t exist then.

What I learned about Codijy is that it takes a good deal of time to get a good colorized version of a print, but in the end it’s worth the effort. For photos which are very complicated, with say a lot of people in them, or a lot of different scenery elements, those colorizations take quite a bit more time. You have to select which colors to use, and then outline each area with that color. My wife, Joan, says that I screwed up in making the wedding dress white, that during that era, wedding dresses were typically ivory. Oh, well, that’s Artistic License in play. In doing the colorization, the more areas you define, the better the result, but the longer it takes. I estimate that the easy ones take about 20 minutes per, and the more complicated ones take anywhere from 30 minutes – 1 hour.

I also got to better understand the axiom: “Garbage IN, Garbage OUT.” I had several scanned images (not shown) from the early 1900s which were highly degraded to start, and not a lot of focus … more like a big blob. I tried colorizing these, and as expected got “Garbage Out.”

Here are some of the Codijy Colorizer Pro results, with the B&W and Colorized versions: