Happy Monday Everyone! A few weeks ago, MyHeritage released their InColor system, which allows users to colourise their old family photos - all those images that we've only ever known to be black & white or sepia can now be seen in colour! It's been amazing to see the transformation of everyone's photos, so I of course went a little crazy with colourising my own family photos. It's amazing to see how much difference colour can make to an image, and how accurate a majority of the transformed images look. The technology has be liscensed by MyHertiage from DeOldify, which was created by Jason Antic and Dana Kelley. Their system has been available for free online, which I also used, but the MyHeritage version is definitely more accurate, natural and rich in colour, plus gives you a higher quality of image output. Like most people, a majority of my old family photos are in black and white, and while I'm grateful to even have these old photos, there's definitely been times where I wish I could see them in full colour and really see what that exact moment looked like. It's been such a wonderful experience breathing new life into these photos and connecting with my ancestors that little bit more. In particular, seeing my grandparents in colour has been a really moving, and I only wish I could share these photos with them and have them tell me how accurate the recolour is. Meet my amazing grandmother, who this month has been gone for 10 years. This photo was taken in the 1960s and I just love it. Seeing it in colour was truly amazing - it was one of the first few photos I put through InColor, and just to see her in full-colour, and outdoors at that, was amazing. I just really have no words to describe how much I love this photo and seeing this wonderful woman in colour. Any doubts I had about how good InColor could be certainly flew out the window with this result. This is a favourite photo of mine, mainly for the interpretation my 1st cousin once removed has for it. Of my grandmother, her sister and their mother, my cousin believes they went out that morning and purchased those hats, which in colour or black & white, stand out. I'm not sure when this was taken or where exactly they were going (it could be as simple as church), but I just love seeing these three together, as it's one of the few photos of my great-grandmother and her children (though two daughters are missing). Seriously, I can't believe how much colour can change how you see an image! This one is of my father (the baby) and his siblings in 1947, and I just can't get over how real the image looks - sure it might not be 100% accurate but it looks like it could be the original image. It might seem like a pretty mundane photo, but I just can't stop looking at it! This was actually the first photo I colourised and it blew me away. Pictured are my grandparents with my great grandparents on their wedding day in 1958, and as far as I know, no colour photo exists, although I have seen another copy that had been given a splash of colour back in the day. Apart from the wash of pink in my grandmother's veil, both myself and my mother think this is pretty accurate to what was photographed. I'm yet to show my grandfather and sadly can't show my grandmother as she has advanced Alzheimer's, but I love that I can have this coloured photo in my collection for years to come. Even just a simple splash of colour gives an image a new lease on life. This one is of the old Commerical Hotel in Urana in 1919, which was possibly owned by my Great Uncle Richard Little, pictured third from the right with his mother-in-law, wife and children. Sadly, this building, and many photos, no longer exist, so it's really cool to have a slightly new perspective of it. This final photo hits a little differently. Taken in 1917, it features men at the military training camp in Codford before they were shipped off to Europe. Crouching on the far left in the front row is my Great Uncle, William Thomas Johns, who's story I've previously told. It's only a splash of colour, but it really humanises these men and brings them to life. These men marched off to war, and most probably didn't return...
These are only a handful of the photos that I colourised, but these are definitely my favourites. If you've not yet taken advantage of MyHeritage's InColor, you need to get on it ASAP! All users get the chance to colour 10 photos, while those with a complete MyHeritage subscription can colour an unlimited number of photos. As I said at the top of this post, there is a free version available online, although it's not a on-point as the MyHeritage version. But, it does give you a chance to play around with this technology, so do check it out. Let me know if you want to see more of my colourised photos, because I definitely have a LOT! Happy Colourising! Victoria :) |
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