MyHeritage yesterday added Photo Repair to its photo toolbox. The new tool automatically fixes scratches, tears, holes, stains and other damage on historical photos.
With this additional tool, MyHeritage is the only company to offer a complete suite of features for colourizing, restoring, enhancing, animating and now repairing historical photos, all of which produce exceptional results.
Photos may be repaired effortlessly in a single click and the process takes only a few seconds.
When a photo is uploaded to MyHeritage, a specialized detection algorithm runs in the background and determines if it has sustained damage. If so, a Repair button is made available, ensuring that users won’t waste time attempting to repair photos that don’t need it.
The default repair model, named Gentle Repair, will fix most types of damage with minimal changes to the rest of the photo.
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For photos with more substantial damage, an Extensive Repair model can be applied.
The Extensive repair model is better for more severe damage and scratches, but sometimes it may affect other parts of the photo negatively. If, after using the Gentle repair model you still see scratches, you can try the Extensive repair model to see which result you prefer.
As a longtime Adobe Photoshop user, I’m not thrilled with the results of Photo Repair. I’d prefer to do my own somewhat time-consuming repairs. On the photos I tested, the tool was unable to remove a scratch over faces without completely blurring the facial features.
For most people, however, who want to do a quick repair job and don’t have access to Photoshop, the Photo Repair tool will often do the trick.
For all the details, instructions, and samples of repaired photos, read MyHeritage’s blog post.
MyHeritage allows you to use the photo tools on about ten photos without a subscription. One of the reasons I bought a subscription was to have unlimited access to these tools.
