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The Colorizer

Download the Colorizer here. 'Works on Windows XP, and Windows Vista. As for other Windows versions I don't know: You can try and see if it works. - The locked version is fully functional, except the finished image will have a nag-text and a logo on it.
See about the possibility of a Colorizer tutorial here
View the change-log here

Note: If you are ever inspired by the Colorizer application to create a similar application, or to implement similar functions in another software application then by doing so you implicitly agree to having donated your midbrain to experimental psychology for purposes of pain research.

February 6th 2009: I did finish version 1.07.1, which allow loading and converting up to 344 images at once. However, the annoying paranormal phenomenon which has time and again demonstrated its lack of ability to mind its own business and abstain from trying to be helpful (or trying to appear to be helpful), suggested that this feat should somehow be an occation to gloat, while seeming to imply a view on the colorizer application as being involved in some kind of "competing" of some sort. - Resultingly I have, as of today, deleted all the sourcecode of the Colorizer application. That's what happens when paranormal phenomena are disrupting my daily routines, or making redicuous double-language "predictions" of features that it was obvious that I intended to implement anyways, or anyhow trying to make me or my work an object of competing or gloating or showing off. (And if I had a copy of that C.S.Lewis novel about the wardrobe closet that Fifi - the rediculous little paranormal second rank blob of snot - now, in its eager to turn people against each other, seem so keen to cast, then I would use its pages to wipe my arse! And the same goes for that dumbass story about some dumbass sword of some dumbass king! Toilet paper! Arsewipe!) -So there is not going to be any more updates - ever! And I'm not so sure I even intend to publish version 1.07.1: If it's gonna be viewed on as some kind of competition then I much prefer to "let the other guy win" (or more likely perhaps: to let him/her remain under the delusion that being mindraped and robbed of his/her freedom of choice to access a useful resource is somehow a kind of "victory" on his/her part - go figure) - over the alternative of playing along with that whole "sports show" thing. (I'm telling you the so-called "competition" is rigged anyways.) The match has just been cancelled! Besides I haven't had time to test the finished version 1.07.2 on Vista yet. 'Might turn out to not be not publishable at all. But at least now I have that application for manipulating image color properties that I wanted in the first place. - February 10th: Nope. 'Just found a bug in v.1.07.1 with the sizing of the full-size display when converting multiple images. Not a very big problem and could've propably been easily fixed if the sourse code had still existed. But absolutely not publishable..
December 14th 2009: I have sometimes needed to perform some image manipulations that I could not do with any of the graphics applications that I otherwise use. I created the Colorizer to be a tool that let me manipulate the color properties of an image in much more detail than is possible with the other graphics applications I use.

Example base image: "Albero E Sole" by photographer: Francesco Marino

Apart from simply manipulating the colors of an image The Colorizer also has the option to apply a second layer image onto the base image while letting me have full control over which color components of the base- and layer-image respectively are applied, and to what degree.
Example base image: "Woman" by photographer: Dynamite Imagery - Example layer image: "Flowers" by photographer: Salvatore Vuono
And no, I am not going to replace this screenshot with a different one with an abstract motif, just because the rediculous little second rank blob of snot named Looser, that the paranormal obviously is, may come up with some problem about the specific look-type of whatever girl is on that picture: I chose that photo because it has a nice visual composition and because it is well suited to demonstrate the layer function of the colorizer application; NOT because wether I may or may not "like" the appearance of the girl who happen to be on the picture. If I had chosen a different photo with a different girl then Fifi - the rediculous little paranormal second rank blob of snot actually named Looser - would have made just as much a problem of that.
And if it had been a different girl on that photo who looked different then, given the same choice of alternative options, I would still have chosen that photo - not because of wether I may or may not "like" the appearance of model in it, but because of its visual composition and because it is well suited to demonstrate the colorizer application layer function, as is the purpose of this screenshot.


Finally the color manipulations and/or the layer image may be applied to the base image through a template that delimits which spatial parts of the image the manipulations should be applied to, and to what degree. - The colorizer includes a template library and comes with a set of pre-made templates. You can also load an image file to use as template, or you can create a custom made template, using the colorizer functions. Of course you can save any template to the template library so that you can re-use it at a later time.
Once you have set the controls to convert an image in some way you can save the settings as a conversion profile so you can easily restore the same settings at a later time in case you want to convert more images in the same way later on.
Example 1 base/template image: "Sticky Note" by photographer: Suat Eman - Example 2 base image: "Sfondo Astratto Con Quadri E Foglie"
by photographer: Francesco Marino - Example 2 layer image: "Red Poppies In Field" by photographer: Simon Howden

Anyways: In response to the question that started me off writing the first Colorizer to begin with: Now I knows what it looks like when you take the red component out of all the pixels in an image and replace it with half the value of the green- and half the value of the blue components, to get an idea of how mice perceive colors.

Download the Colorizer here. 'Works on Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
As for other Windows versions I don't know: You can try and see if it works.

The locked version is fully functional, except the finished image will have a nag-text and a logo on it.
Buy a Registration Keycode to unlock NoDeal! Colorizer. Price now: only 5.00 €

All example images used in the screenshots on this page were downloaded from