5 Easy-to-Use Tools to Repair, Enhance and Animate Your Old Photos on MyHeritage

Rick Crume
Aug 26, 2025
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Photo Repair
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Photo Tagger
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Colorize Photos
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Deep Nostalgia
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Live Memory
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MyHeritage Mobile App
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Live Demonstration
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Announcement / prizes
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Questions / answers
19m 06s

About this webinar

MyHeritage makes it easy to fix problems in old photographs—without having to buy expensive and complicated photo-editing software. Upload a photo to MyHeritage and, with just a few clicks, you can sharpen blurry faces, remove scratches and transform a black-and-white photo to color. If your old color photos have faded, you can restore the original colors. You can even animate a face in a photo and create a video of someone telling his or life story. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use all these tools.

About the speakers

About the speakers

A writer for Family Tree Magazine since 1999 and a contributing editor for the publication since 2001, Rick specializes in online genealogy research. Rick has also written for other magazines and journals, including Internet Genealogy
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MyHeritage is the leading global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories fo
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Key points and insights

In this engaging MyHeritage webinar, genealogy expert Rick Crume demonstrates how cutting-edge photo tools can breathe new life into treasured family images. From repairing creased and faded photos to animating ancestors’ faces, these features open new possibilities for preserving and sharing family history. For genealogists, these tools are more than just digital enhancements—they’re powerful aids that can make historical photos clearer, more vibrant, and easier to connect with living relatives.

Key Takeaways:

  • Restore and Revive: Tools such as Photo Repair and Colorize can remove scratches, restore faded colors, and sharpen blurry images, making old photographs look strikingly fresh while preserving their historical integrity.

  • Animate and Personalize: Features like Deep Nostalgia, LiveMemory, and Deep Story transform still photos into lifelike animations or narrated videos, offering new and creative ways to engage family members with genealogical research.

  • Organize and Identify: Free tools like PhotoDater and Photo Tagger use AI to estimate photo dates and automatically recognize faces across collections, saving time and helping identify unknown individuals in historic images.

This webinar highlights not only how to use the tools but also why they matter—helping genealogists turn fragile family keepsakes into dynamic, shareable stories. With options available on the MyHeritage website, the mobile app, and the Reimagine app, there are flexible ways to integrate these features into your research workflow.

To gain the full benefit of these demonstrations—including live examples, practical tips, and deeper insights into subscription options—view the complete webinar. It provides step-by-step guidance that can help you immediately start enhancing and organizing your family photo collection.

Finally, be sure to explore the additional resources included in the webinar syllabus. These materials expand on the presentation and offer further strategies for making your family photos—and your genealogy research—more meaningful and impactful.

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  1. CA
    Claire Almquist
    6 days ago

    So interesting, thank you

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  2. VW
    violet WELSHEIMER
    1 week ago

    Great syllabus, lots of info!

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  3. MK
    Marci Keats Rudolph
    1 week ago

    Just super. Answered all my questions about photo tools and I subscribed to the complete photo plan afterwards.

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  4. CJ
    C. Jane Germann
    1 week ago

    I had no idea how much could be done with old photos.

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  5. RD
    Rosalyn Dowling
    1 week ago

    Very informative & helpful! Thank you!

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  6. KM
    Kathleen Marine
    1 week ago

    Very informative

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  7. DP
    Dan Parker
    1 week ago

    A whole lot of good information!

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  8. NW
    Neal Warber
    1 week ago

    Very interesting.

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