Hi All..... Scottish Indexes posted this item today and I have used this service (with no subscription to My Heritage)...........it just takes a few seconds and the end result is amazing......Have Fun!! I put one of mine out as an attachment with the coloured one as well. Heather....................................................... Great news! Free and unlimited access to "MyHeritage In Color" - Code: www.myheritage.com/incolor We tried this a few weeks ago and had a lot of fun with it. Thanks MyHeritage We have just received an email from My Heritage to tell us that "Ordinarily only 10 photos can be colorized by users who do not have a Complete plan, but now, you can colorize as many photos as you’d like for free."
I just went to MyHeritage. Be careful! The site wants you to sign up for a free trial, but you have to give payment card details and you will be charged if you don't cancel in time.
Further to the above - I was surprised to receive an email welcoming me to MyHeritage, giving me a username and not mentioning any payment so of course I tried out the photo colouring and was quite pleased with it. The photo I tried has an object that I remember was red, and that has come out as a sort of rusty colour, so the colours aren't exact, but pretty close.
Hi Moff.....was just coming on here to tell you that they were NOT doing that to you. Glad it is sorted out now. I have been a free/non-paying customer for a few years. The pictures are darn good, eh?? (Je suis Canadien, lol). I did one with at least 25 people in it and was completely thrilled with the results. Enjoy...... And in the above photos of mine, that is my father's parents and I am the kid sitting beside him....a whole 10 years old. Grandma died a year later but I don't honestly remember much about her cuz she and my other Grandma looked alike.
I was going to start another thread on this topic, having been tempted in by a couple of photo-colourising freebies but thought it might be easier to tag onto Figgs'. What programmes/apps do people use for this? What's the cheapest option still available?
It was free for a bit on My Heritage, but perhaps it is now free for everyone. I did all my black and whites and haven't used it since. I am not a member at My Heritage.
@Figgs Must have missed this thread last year. At long last a photo of Figgs. Albeit not taken yesterday.
Hi AM! That’s my quarantine hair do! . Sorry I have not been around for quite some time. Between Covid and Ron’s state of health, I did my usual. I go quiet! Most unusual for a Gemini! The trial drugs are really knocking the stuffing out of him. Plus I had a bad fall on Xmas day and whacked my head, resulting in a concussion!! Not my year! Still wobbly and brain dead! Can’t drive or watch too much TV...grrr! Hope everyone is well...particularly that good looking man of yours! I remember that much! Take care and will try to get back to genealogy & making jewellery. Hi to everyone on here btw.
Hi Figgs. He’s doing OK, thanks. Another setback but we’ll sort that out too. You know how it is. That is a lovely photo of you and grandparents but I rather like the black and white as well.
Oh boy.........I fell asleep after I wrote you. Sorry about that. I am not my usual self. I thought you meant my cat was me........LOL!! Glad to hear all is OK and tell Lawrie to keep on fighting. I will be so glad when this blasted virus is gone.....I have only been out twice since before Xmas....bloody cold here as well. Trust Oz is faring better than we are....... Hugs........from the 2 of us. xxxx
You really aren't yourself are you? Yes. We are faring very well with this virus. That's because we wouldn't let anyone in......still waiting for my pantry spice shelves, even they weren't allowed to come. They'll be here end of April.
OK, this is disappointing. I've just done one of my Mum and one of my Dad and the animated version looks nothing like them.
I may have another look at MyHeritage then. I was using the Colorize app on my phone and that allegedly gave me so many free images before asking for subs. Once it requested subs the 'free' images were no longer usable - the save/share facility was removed and the ones that I'd already coloured were rended unusable by watermark. That back-tracking of 'free usage' - ie taking them back! - made me dubious of exploring anything else. I may even have subscribed otherwise.
Odd! I downloaded them immediately to my laptop folders and they are still there as far as I know. Sent copies to my daughter and sister too. I do recall that I had a free sub which is rather limited but did a few b&w photos for free at that time. I will double check.
I just braved up after reading your post @Figgs & sent my 'Martin Family' photo for enhancement & colourisation. The before shot is in my media, sadly they all came up looking badly sunburned & fabric colours mainly too dark so I won't share that, very dark photo to begin with but where it's now coloured mainly shades of red-brown, I had imagined more blue/ green for lighter fabrics on dresses. When I am confidant enough or have no genealogy pending, I may try to lighten it up a bit.
Wendy....Know anyone who uses Photoshop, etc? They would be able to do that for you. Mine turned out basically all right....but they were black & white photos from yonks ago!! And once I found the password, I am happy to report that I still have a tiny tree (112 people) on there for free. Can't remember why I got it. Oh darn....looks like Ancestry took it over which is probably why I have rarely used it.
I went into MyHeritage, couldn't remember my log-in details from ages ago (think I probably used a now-defunct email address) so re-registered again and it requested my debit card details. While I was still chewing over this, I realised I could access the colourising effects without bothering with my card - as mentioned earlier in the thread, so that was okay. I played around with it for a bit (like a kid with a new etch-a-sketch ). I still had a couple of images I had downloaded with the Colorize app before it put watermarks across the free trial and I compared them to the MyHeritage ones; I have to say that the Colorize results, the paying app, were more impressive. Greater depth of colour. But... MyHeritage is free, at the moment. So then I had a play with the animation thing. I used a photo of my grandma taken on honeymoon in 1923 and that was an interesting result. Of course, I didn't know my grandma as a young girl. Perhaps she had softened as she got older; it didn't look like her so much. Then I used my husband's great great grandfather. Neither of us knew the man, of course; it was fascinating to see him 'alive'. Then I used a photo of myself at my daughter's first graduation where I looked considerably younger than I do now and - arrrggh. It added lots of furrowed wrinkles where I don't have any and made me ten years older than I am now! I did not like that at all. I think what is spooky about the animation is that they use someone else's eyes imposed on the image. (If you're painting a portrait and you get the eyes 'right', it looks like the subject. If not, well, it could be anybody - and that's the effect achieved here).