Have you ever wondered how to bring your black-and-white comic sketches to life with vibrant colors? AI manga colorizers are here to help. These advanced tools use sophisticated algorithms to analyze and color your sketches, making them look like professionally colored artworks.
How AI Manga Colorizers Work
AI manga colorizers like AnimeColorDeOldify and MangaColorizer leverage powerful AI technology to transform your black-and-white manga sketches into colorful illustrations. These tools use deep learning models trained on extensive datasets to understand the nuances of your sketches. By recognizing patterns, shapes, and lines, they apply colors that complement the original art while respecting shadows and highlights. This results in a seamless blend of original sketch and added color, creating a visually appealing final product.
After looking at these professional tools, we decided to try asking ChatGPT-4o to generate a sketch of a comic in black and white:
How to Use an AI Manga Colorizer
Using an AI manga colorizer is straightforward. For instance, with the MangaColorizer app, you start by uploading your sketch. The AI then processes the image, applying a color palette that you can customize. The whole process is user-friendly, designed to cater to both professional artists and hobbyists. Simply select your image, choose or generate a color palette, and let the AI do its magic. The result is a beautifully colorized version of your sketch, ready to be shared or further edited.
So let’s try to colorize the black-and-white ninja girls comic sketch, turning it into vibrant art.
Our Experience with ChatGPT-4o
We recently tried using ChatGPT-4o to colorize a black-and-white sketch of two ninja girls. The process was simple: upload the image, and request the AI to add colors. The outcome was impressive, showcasing the potential of AI in enhancing artistic creations. This tool can significantly reduce the time and effort required to color sketches manually, offering an efficient alternative for artists.
First Attempt
In our first attempt ChatGPT-4o colorized the comic, but the color were quite surreal:
Second Attempt
In the second tentative, somehow it come out with a MatPlot Lib chart and then it decided to generate a similar brand new image instead of colorizing the anime JPG file we had uploaded:
What we learnt is that there are some AI tools that are perfect for anyone looking to add color to their black-and-white manga sketches with minimal effort, however Chat-GPT 4o is still imperfect in accomplishing this task.