Media.io Auto Color

Media.io Auto Color corrects the colour of a photo that already has colour. The AI reads the image and sets temperature, white balance, contrast, saturation and exposure itself, which clears casts like an orange indoor tint or a blue outdoor shade. It is fully automatic with no sliders, so you take the correction it decides on. It does not add colour to black-and-white photos, which is a separate tool.

It runs in the browser only and accepts JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP and BMP, up to 25MB and 6000x4000 pixels. The vendor states the correction is currently free and the download carries no watermark. Its own page labels that free run time-limited, so check the page before planning around it.

Use Media.io Auto Color when a colour photo looks off and you want a quick automatic fix:

• Your photo has a cast on it, like the orange of indoor bulbs or the blue of open shade, and you want it neutral.
• A shot came out dark, flat or badly white-balanced and you want it corrected without learning tone curves.
• You want the whole job to be one click, with no settings to weigh up.
• You want a clean file for nothing. The vendor states the tool is currently free and puts no watermark on the download.
• You need one photo fixed and do not want to open a full editor to do it.

Skip Media.io Auto Color if any of these describe you:

• Your photo is black and white and you want colour added. That is a different job, handled by a photo colorizer.
• You want to grade the photo by hand, to a look of your own. This is fully automatic, so an editor like Adobe Lightroom is where the sliders are.
• The photo is blurry, grainy or too small. Colour correction leaves all three untouched, so a photo enhancer is the fix.
• Your file is large or in an unusual format. Uploads stop at 25MB and 6000x4000 pixels, and it reads JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP and BMP.
• The photo is confidential. It is uploaded to Media.io's servers rather than corrected on your own machine.