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Warren Darst "Doc" Gill colorized by Pixverse.ai

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Michael Joseph "Skinner" Hopkins colorized by google gemini

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William Jacob "Parson" McGill colorized by google gemini from an image found in the Cinemaodyssey facepack

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John Albert Butler colorized by Google Gemini

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Leo Alexander Fohl colorized by google gemini

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Patrick Francis O'Connor colorized by google gemini

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All these recent posts from Krantzbucks have inspired me to go back and take another look at photo generative ai apps. I have to admit they are getting scary good...and I have mixed emotions about that.

Photos are from a session done with Google Gemini (a.k.a. nano banana).

Original below was cropped from an offering at historicalimages.com.



Prompt: Restore and colorize the photo

Which gave me this:



Past experience has shown that these apps can alter facial features. On this one it didn't do too badly. A nice bonus is that the watermark disappeared without any prompting.

Since I wanted Rautzhan with a cap, I uploaded this from ebay:



Prompt: add this cap to the ballplayer

And voila...I got this:



I do note the aspect ratio changed (and generated appropriate pixels left and right). I think that is because the cap was uploaded after the original player image so the app used the aspect ratio of the cap image.

Finally, knowing that Rautzhan sported a mustache at some point that year, I did one more prompt to allow for that option.

Prompt:add a mustache to the player

Which gave this final image:



I don't believe for a minute that every effort will work as well as this one did but the technology is only going to get better and, I believe, quite rapidly...and as previously mentioned that can be good or bad depending on how it is used.

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James Francis "Kid" O'Hara colorized by google gemini from an image found in the cinemaodyssey facepack.

I agree with the comments Infield Fly has made above. The AI image generators are awesome tools but remain fallible. The results are often amazing while often they are baffling and incomprehensibly off-base. The most accurate results are still provided by the best source images.

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Robert Garfield "Doc" Vail colorized by Google Gemini from an image shared by dto7

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Harlan Edward "Cy the Third" Young colorized by Google Gemini from an image shared by dto7

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Cornelius Robert Walsh colorized by google gemini

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John Wesley "Jock" Somerlott colorized by google gemini and pixverse.ai

Pixverse for the win.

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Irvin Key "Kaiser" Wilhelm colorized with Google Gemini from an image shared by Pegasus27

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Louis Hugo Manske colorized by google gemini

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Warren Williams Sanders colorized by google gemini

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Warren A. McLaughlin colorized by Google Gemini

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William Burris "Big Bill" Powell colorized by Google Gemini from an image shared by tnfoto

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Eugene "Blue Goose" Moore colorized by Google Gemini

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Henry Richardson Camnitz colorized by google gemini

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Henry Eugene "Mike" McCann colorized by pixverse.ai in images shared by tnfoto and RuKen respectively.