![]() ![]() If you're wondering, my avatar is one of my ancestors from my photographic heirloom collection. I've been researching my tree for about 8 years and my US research is based mostly in Pennsylvania (mainly Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas), but also some in Wisconsin, Kentucky, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio. My known European heritage is mainly German (and Swiss), Italian, British (English and Scots-Irish), and Norwegian, with a little bit of Dutch and French Huguenot from way back on one branch. So it's no surprise I run two blogs, one for history-related book reviews and this one on genealogy. I love all things history and genealogy, if I'm not researching my genealogy in my spare time, I'm usually reading a historical novel or history book. I'm a 30-something year old photographer and homesick Pennsylvanian who spent eight years in Manchester, England before moving to Colorado with her British husband. This is just a small area of the photo but these purple spots turn up everywhere if you look closely enough. You can see these sort of random purple splotches in the zoom-in below, particularly in her hair (pretty sure purple wasn't a trending hair color in 1880 Wisconsin), and sleeves. That's the downside to using a computer instead of a human who can distinguish these things and safely choose a greater variety of colors to apply.Īdditionally, when I zoom in, there are areas that look like something almost resembling purple fringing except not along high contrast edges. You can probably understand why - I suppose they don't want a man's suit turning up bright red or something equally unrealistic for the era and gender. The men are in black suits, the women all seem to be in black and dark navy dresses, and the kids are all in white or neutral colors. You may notice how it doesn't exactly take much risk or leaps with the colors it chooses. They don't tell you this anywhere but choose your photos carefully because you only get 10 of them, and deleting previous ones doesn't allow you anymore.Īnd the colorization still isn't perfect. ![]() Unfortunately, although it will accept high resolution images, there is a limit to how many photos you can colorize if you have a free account. I was a little worried that such an advanced tool available for free would only accept low resolution images (maybe charging for high resolution), but this was a fairly high resolution image and it not only accepted it, it still only took a few seconds to generate a color version. What's even better is that this is a high resolution image I used. Not bad for an automated system! Granted, the photo's highlights are a little blown out in places and some of the faces are blurred from too much movement, but colorizing system handled it pretty well in spite of that. ![]() But zooming in on his eyes shows the sepia/fleshy colors of the skin seems to have just been overlaid on his eyes, making them look brown, as if there was no attempt whatsoever to even color the eyes at all. A little disappointing.Īdditionally, you may not be able to see it very well but this man's eyes were clearly light colored - blue, grey, hazel, etc. I don't think that was the intention, and the skin tones did have a more fleshy color, but everything else looked like it'd just been sepia toned. I was surprised how quickly it colorized, and I was pleased with how nice it looked but I realized that it actually just looked like a sepia tone had been added to it. The photo I tested was just a simple portrait from about the 1880s. But how well does it work? I was a little skeptical and couldn't wait to test it out. Ever wanted to have your old black and white family photos colorized, but don't know how to do it yourself, and don't want to pay a professional an arm and a leg for it? Well, MyHeritage just launched a new free feature from DeOldify that will instantly colorize black and white photos. ![]()
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