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ANCESTRY TIPS
Rock Out with Your Ancestors
Which animation will you choose from the menu?
I don’t know if my great-grandfather, Peter Smolenyak, will ever forgive me. Several weeks ago, I wrote about using MyHeritage’s Deep Nostalgia tool to animate him, but now they’ve introduced fresh functionality to customize your animations, and I couldn’t resist playing with it.
Immediately drawn to the “special animations” menu, I tried experimenting with my great-grandfather. To give a sense of the kind of results you can expect, this trio of photos shows the original image I uploaded followed by a restored version, and then one that’s been both restored and colorized — all using MyHeritage.
Using the last of these as my starting point, I jumped into the animation menu. As might be expected, some work better than others depending on the specifics of the original image you start with. For…
