Sunday, February 16, 2020

Colorizing black and white photos
You now can use your MyHeritage.com subscription to create colorized copies of black and white photos.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/02/colorize-your-black-and-white-photos-automatically-with-myheritage-in-color/

For maybe 50 years, I have been an avid collector of old family photos.
Most of these are black and white, so the idea of converting them to color, seemed very interesting.
The process was very fast.

  1. Upload a photo
  2. Click colorize
  3. Download the colorized version. 

Results varied, of course, Overexposed and underexposed photos did not do as well, but the results for properly-exposed photos were impressive. See the one below.


Admittedly the software does not really know the original colors, so a lot of guesswork is involved, but I find the results well worth the minimal effort required.

P.S.
The little girl Annie Bray, (shown front center)  grew up to become one of my family history mentors in the 1960s. She was born in 1889. Thank you for all your help Annie Bray! 


UPDATE: I seem to be able to upload a maximum of about 80 photos to colorize. I wish I had chosen them more carefully.

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