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MyHeritage Photo Enhancer Goes Viral: One Million Photos Already Enhanced!

By The Citizen on June 22, 2020

At MyHeritage, our passion is to help people connect with their family histories. Earlier this year, we introduced MyHeritage In Colorā„¢, a groundbreaking new technology to bring your old family photos to life through colorization. On June 12, we took it a step further by introducing the game-changing MyHeritage Photo Enhancer: a tool that enhances photos by bringing blurry faces into sharp focus. When combined, MyHeritage In Colorā„¢ and the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer can reveal your ancestors as youā€™ve never seen them before.

Once again, the response has been incredible. In just a week and a half, one million photos have been enhanced using the new Photo Enhancer tool. Users describe being deeply moved by seeing such crystal-clear images of family members they only knew in their later years ā€” or perhaps had never met. Some were brought near tears to see their ancestors in such realism. A professional photographer expressed wonder at how well the tool works. A genealogy expert blogger discovered that the tool can also improve the quality of scanned documents and make them easier to read!Ā Ā 

Below are some of the reactions weā€™ve received to the Photo Enhancer:

On the MyHeritage Blog

ā€œThis is amazing!ā€ writes Carol Woods in the comments of the MyHeritage Blog.

ā€œToday I downloaded one of my paternal grandparents that I had missed, then colourised it,ā€ another user, Kate, comments. ā€œWhen I enhanced it and then enlarged it I was close to tears ā€” I had finally met Gran and Grandad as a young couple. The enhancing did a really good job on a not-very-good ~100 year old photo; their eyes looked at me in the eye; I could see Granā€™s light blue eye colour and just how much my father was like his motherā€¦ Grandad died when I was 2 years old so I donā€™t remember him, but I can see now just how very much like him Dadā€™s 2 brothers were, and what a gentle man he was… The app has enabled me to ā€˜knowā€™ my grandparents in a way that I could not have otherwise. Thank you, MyHeritage.ā€

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Genealogy Bloggers

ā€œSo I am sitting here early in the morning, the sun just rising over Lake Michigan, and I finally got some time to look at the new MyHeritage Photo Enhancer. And I am trying not to cry,ā€ writes Thomas MacEntee of High-Definition Genealogy. ā€œThe photo… is one of my prized possessions.Ā 

I am just BLOWN AWAY at how I can now really see what my mother looked like at age 8.Ā 

The detail is amazing especially when the new enhancement tool is paired with the new MyHeritage In Colorā„¢ feature!ā€

Thomas also decided to try the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer for another genealogy use:

ā€œRecently I decided to use the new MyHeritage Photo Enhancer to see if it would make a scanned genealogy record easier to read … and it did! The photoā€¦ isn’t exactly a pretty scan…Ā 

I’ve encountered some really bad scan jobs lately and I’m always looking for ways to improve their quality for research purposes.Ā  I thought, ā€˜What if I ran it through the new MyHeritage Photo Enhancer?ā€™ And here are the results.

The details are amazing and it is much easier to read.ā€

After his suggestion, a MyHeritage user wrote Thomas about how useful she is finding the Photo Enhancer:

ā€œThis is another “wow” feature from MyHeritage,ā€ writes James Tanner in Genealogyā€™s Star. ā€œAll I can say is that it works on many photos and the results are amazingā€¦ It is hard to believe the difference. I have some of the advanced photo editing software that is presently available but I never thought that I could ā€˜fixā€™ an out-of-focus image.ā€

Lisa Louise Cooke from Genealogy Gems writes ā€œWell, they’ve done it again! On the heels of the wonderful photo colorization tool, MyHeritage has launched Photo Enhancer. In just a few seconds sharpens blurry images. I’ve been using it (image below) and I think it’s even more exciting than colorizing photos!ā€

Conclusion

The Photo Enhancer, together with MyHeritage In Colorā„¢, makes MyHeritage the best platform for uploading, enhancing, and sharing historical photos. It allows you to see your ancestors in an entirely new light: clearer, sharper, and more real than ever before.

Give it a try and tell us what you think!

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Source: My Heritage

Published in Enhance photos, MyHeritage In Color, MyHeritage Photo Enhancer, MyHeritage Products and Photos

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