Bill's Genealogy Blog

Bill Buchanan is a long-time genealogy enthusiast, living in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada. This blog will describe my experiences as I research my family history and help others.

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I am a retired online school teacher. I love family history. From 2007-2020, I spent much of my time providing part-time support for the world's largest free family history site https://familysearch.org This is very rewarding. I have helped others with the Family Tree and related FamilySearch products.
In 2010-2018 I served in the Edmonton_Alberta_Riverbend_Family_History_Centre..I have a FHC blog at Bill's Family History Center Blog Since 2020 I have been a family history consultant for Edmonton Alberta North Stake. For information on the Latter-day Saints and family history click https://www.comeuntochrist.org/

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Colorizing black and white photos

I subscribe to MyHeritage.com and this week they had something that really interested me.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/02/colorize-your-black-and-white-photos-automatically-with-myheritage-in-color/

I was able to use their site to colorize black and white photos.
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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