Being confined indoors right now due to the coronavirus situation, I’ve been having some fun experimenting with colourization of some old family photos.
The MyHeritage website is currently offering its photo colourizing process for free. Only recently launched, it previously had a limit of 10 free photo uploads unless you had a paid subscription to the site. It’s super easy to use, takes only seconds for each photo and the results are in most cases pretty amazing.
The colourized pictures below are as created by MyHeritage; I’ve done no further photo manipulation.
My great-grandparents Joseph & Helen Mitchell
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Family reunion at a cottage on Georgian Bay, mid-1960s, when my grandmother’s oldest sister, Grace Stock, and her husband visited from England. The only one missing is me; I must have taken the photo.
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My brothers and I in our backyard pool, Toronto late 1950s
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My paternal grandparents, Nellie & George Aitken
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My maternal grandparents, Jessie & Alfred Strachan, 1941
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My great-grandparents Robert & Clara Strachan
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My husband, Peter, with his mother and sister, late 1950s
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Peter’s uncle Vello Viisimaa looking through photo albums with his father, Aarne, in Sweden during a rare visit from Estonia. Vello and his mother were permanently separated from Aarne following the Russian occupation of Estonia in 1940, when Vello was only 12.
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Peter’s maternal grandmother, Luise Zwirn, with her three youngest daughters, Berlin 1937
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Peter’s grandparents Kurt & Luise Zwirn, Berlin 1946
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Class photo for my maternal grandmother, Jessie Baty, London circa 1905. Jessie is second row, third from right.
those sure look good.
They’re amazing! I must try some of my photos – bringing long dead people back to life.
Angus
Love all the pics! We had a swimming pool with 5 kids just like that.