CODIJY Colorizer Pro
CODIJY Recoloring
How to
Open an image in CODIJY
CODIJY programs are designed for colorizing images. They allow you to work with images in various formats including PNG, JPEG and others.
To open an image in the program, use the Open Image or Document function.
You can call the Open dialog from:
- the Project Explorer dialog box,
- main window,
- the main menu.
Alternatively, press Ctrl O/⌘ O
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How to open an image in CODIJY
From the Project Explorer
Project Explorer, the CODIJY document navigator, is launched at program startup.
When you launch CODIJY, you can open the image directly from its dialog box:
Step 1. Click the Open icon 
in its lower left corner.
Step 2. Locate the file and click the Open button.
From the main window or the top menu
To open a new image from the main program window:
Option 1. Click the Open icon on toolbar
Option 2. Navigate to File-> Open Document or Image
Alternatively, press Ctrl O/⌘ O.
What happens after you open the image
Once you have clicked open, the image will open in the editor. Here you can work with colors by applying masks to areas of the image.
To ensure your work is not lost, we recommend saving the image to a CODIJY document.
As you work, all your masks, colors used will be automatically saved to the existing document. If the program fails, you will be able to open the last saved copy.
What types of image files does CODIJY support?
CODIJY programs support the following image formats:
- JPG – Joint Photographics Expert Group
- JPEG – Joint Photographics Expert Group
- PNG – Portable Network Graphics
- BMP – Windows Bitmap
- PBM – Portable Bitmap
- PGM – Portable Graymap
- PPM – Portable Pixmap
- XBM – X11 Bitmap
- XPM – X11 Pixmap
- TIF – Tagged Image File Format
- TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
- WBMP – Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format
What are the requirements for the images?
Quality
For quality results, we recommend using contrasty images without a lot of damage.
CODIJY algorithms are tuned to work with a given pixel brightness.
So faded and darkened areas of old photos will be colored in shades that match the brightness of the original image.
The brightness of the tone you choose will not affect the result.
Sepia & color images
The tones like sepia do not affect the colorized results. Same applies to the color photos.
CODIJY removes all hues from the unprotected areas automatically!
Let’s see what happens to a color photo if we run image processing without adding new colors:
