Update from Ancestry... They're telling me the the colorization is still in the roll-out phase, so many still don't have it. They are also working on improvements and expect general availability by the end of the May.
the only option i can find is to rotate, I am not finding the same options as you are showing. I keep going back and starting over with your video. Obviously I am missing some step.
The option was there as I used it, now when I just went back to use for more it was gone & only the 'rotate' button appears. Nothing on their website, etc...
that was going to be my question - I only have the option to rotate...now I know that they're still rolling out the other edit features, I'll just wait :)
Wow. This is so cool. I was just struggling with my Mom's old photo album because I didn't want to take the pictures out and ruin them. I was trying to take a picture with my phone and trying to crop and copy. This is going to make it so much easier. THANK YOU, Connie!!!!
This one is so cool. May I suggest at the beginning of the narrative you are writing, insert a sentence either at the beginning or the end, explaining who wrote this sketch & when (so newbies will know it's not written by the person who is the subject of the video). If you DO have such a narrative written by that person, give details on when it was written and where it is being stored now, along with contact info so later generations can read the original for themselves!.
@@pepperspot805 and what good is that accomplishing? You’re just robbing yourself of convenience to make a stand that is not mattering to a single soul. Not being smart alec; sincerely want to know. I know it feels great to set a boundary, but to accomplish what?
Thanks for this video but I seem to not have a part of the editing software. I can scan the photo but then I cannot edit, enhance, colorize etc. I might be doing something wrong though! I love the scanning part though! Awesome!
I just downloaded the app today on my cell phone and don't see these enhancements. I can scan a photo and add the photo as a profile photo but don't see an enhancement button..
I've had trouble with this. The pictures don't straighten properly. After scanning, when editing like cropping, images aren't saved and the original always comes back up. So can't just 'save', have to 'save to copy' and then delete the old photo.
I've also noticed that my media gallery edit page looks different from yours - however, I only JUST got the new Home Page layout last week, so imagine my Media Gallery enhancements are still in the works
Thanks for this. I will share this on my FB page. Some cousins are snapping photos of photos and sharing them, eh, not very good quality. This will be so much better!
I reccommended your video & channel to a man at the Ashland KY Boyd co library. He came in to ask about scanning a picture for his wife. Hope she watches.
I’ve been using the app for quite a while You can set the app to crop the photos for you and it will of course cut them out individually or not. But if it cut some thing off than you actually tap on the photo and you can see the skin and you just put the points on the corners that you want. It’s really pretty neat.
I am unable to get past the gallery with all my pictures. I've scanned the picture & it goes to the gallery but unable to do anything else. Can't change the color, restore, etc. Very frustrated . I've listened to video 3 times, followed instructions & still nothing. Would appreciate your help Connie. Thank you.
Thanks bunches. I have two very large boxes of old family pictures (numerous tin types) from both my wife's side as well as my own. Your video has given me new hope that I might be able to put this pictures into FTM or Ancestry. What has always stopped me is that everyone in my wife's family is named Willian and everyone in my family is names either David or John. Plus I have numerous pictures of each individual. I have never been able to figure out how to label them. Thoughts? I think the idea of tagging is so helpful. But in my Ancestry, the pictures which I already have in Ancestry do not have the option of "Edit Detail" or "Edit Photo". Do such tools only come in the picture is scanned in with the iPhone. And I have not had a chance to look at Ancestry "SideView" yet. It will be interesting as both my with and I share as 11th grandparents, John Proctor 1557 and Alice Grays 1661 as first cousins....This was an exceptional video...again thanks so much.
Since I'm app challenged I'm having a hard time finding the correct Turboscan app. It seems there are paid apps, and free apps. Non of them look like what you're using. It would help me and what short spare time I have for my favorite passion if you could tell us exactly what the name of the app is and maybe highlight it. Or maybe you did and like I said, I'm challenged. With this being said, I want to have this app. Please help me with my problem. From Bellevue, Mi. Candy Whitney
Ancestry just published a new video yesterday about the app. You no longer have an enhance or restore option. the program automatically restores the photo for you. You should be able to colorize now. You can't alter any pictures already in your gallery on the website at this time
This was posted about 4 weeks ago, and I have an iPhone. I have rotate, but not restore or enhance. ... Do I need an update from somewhere? I have all of my iPhone updates. ??? I feel more confused now more than before. I really want this to work - I recently had a potentially huge breakthrough in my tree and these photos being enhanced could really help.
Hi Connie, appreciate your videos. I was able to scan and colorize several photos the other day. Now I’m unable to access the feature. Anyone else having trouble?
Are these jpg’s? Can you tell me what size these are? How do you export them onto your desktop so that you can then work on them in photoshop? I’m assuming they are quite small and not appropriate for printing or enlarging?
I would like to know which Y dna test do you prefer. I know it’s not this topic but I really need some help. He’s the only Y in the family and he said finally he would do it. Thanks for helping me
Hmmm, the multiple pictures on a scrapbook page didn't work to scan the page making each one an individual photo. Has that improved? Can you crop each one to separate them out?
I find it best to lower the camera closer to each image and straighten them in the camera as much as possible. You'll get a better resolution that way.
Could you clarify whether these photos are visible to the public in the media gallery if you do NOT link them to anyone in your public tree, if you DO link them to someone in your public tree who is deceased, or if you DO link them to someone in your public tree who is living? Thanks. BTW, I didn't know there was an overall medial gallery until this video! Thanks!
If your tree is public then yes, someone could find an image that is not attached to anyone in your tree. It's hard to find them, but I found images that were not attached to anyone. The images would be available in the profiles of deceased persons, if they are marked as deceased or have a death date. If you attach a photo to a living person (to the best of my knowledge) the public cannot see it (unless you have shared your tree with others and set permissions to see living people). Here is more information from Ancestry.support.ancestry.com/s/article/Living-People-in-Family-Trees Please know I don't work for Ancestry, I just share what I know to the best of my knowledge. I will ask Ancestry about images attached living persons profile. Good questions!
@@GenealogyTV Thanks. I did some experimenting and came to the same conclusions. So, the tricky thing to remember is that if you take a photo of someone who is living with this new app, you need to be sure to attach it to that person in your tree in order to keep it from being viewed in the media gallery of a public tree.
When I first tried this on the Android app, it would allow me to scan and save a photo but not edit, and then the app would freeze up. Another poster reminded me to try deleting and reinstalling the app, so I did that and now it appears to be working. I think what happens sometimes is that an app doesn't get a complete update which then breaks it, and it may never fix it on its own. So if it isn't working for you, you might want to try reinstalling. Thank you so much for this video because if I hadn't found it, I'm not sure when I would have discovered it since I had a broken app and didn't know it. This is a GREAT feature!
I've not had time to fool around with this yet but I am very impressed! I have two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings from when my Dad played professional baseball! Now I can't wait to do this!! Thanks, Connie :-)
@@GenealogyTV so I tried it today a few things I, unfortunately, didn't get the rollout yet for colorization etc., and because of the yellowing or color of the scrapbook page itself it didn't clip properly....so we will see what happens. Have a great weekend Connie!
HI...you seem to be using a different program than I am. I don't have the edit button you mention. Am I doing something wrong or is there an update I need to get.
Mine either, not even when taking a new picture :( I wonder if it's still being rolled out or it's only available for paying customers? I know Connie said Free accounts can also use this but with limitations, however I just installed the app and it's not working for me right now
Thank you again for this video. I just used it as a tool. Took photos of photos of my eldest who was born in 1984. The photos are all sorts of awful colours due to the cheap processing we had paid for back then (if only we had known), and Ancestry fixed them up in an instant. I then downloaded them - which brought them down full size (the "save as" option bought down too small a file but download brought down full size), then deleted them off Ancestry. Many others have the patience and talent to do this with their own software, but photo manipulation has never been my strong point. This is fast and efficient. :-))))
I will have to check out some of those new features. Those seem very neat! I had a moment the other day doing some research. I now forget where I was in the tree, but one of my ancestors married a Henley. I thought that would be neat, but unlikely.
This is great. However, if you add a tag and then try to use the picture as profile picture, it crops the picture to something unrecognizable. Like your nose. Does anyone else have that problem?
Look in the app store for the Ancestry app on your phone. It is within the mobile app for Ancestry. Not the Ancestry DNA app but just the regular Ancestry app. Then just login with the same username and password you use on your desktop.
General Genealogy Question: Is it proper to save a record of a child's baptism in the parents record? Or such things as a child's marriage record that includes their parents names? Or any other person's name that may be listed on documents, such as a witness.
My general rule is if the person is named in the document then it goes in their profile, regardless of whose document it is. Your example is a perfect example, yes add it to the parents profile. Why? Because it it documentation of the parent child relationship and or (if it is noted they are alive) then you have an event/place/time to add to the parents timeline too. Great question.
It may be that the enhance and colorize options are only currently available for iPhone and not us Android users. No ANCESTRY update available in GOOGLE PLAY for the app yet for me. Scanning worked great for me, but Iike the others, I am missing the editing features.
Personally, I'd refrain from photographing a whole page as there will be a loss of resolution. A rotate function would be a great addition - the human brain doesn't like trying to read details at 90° LOL.
@@GenealogyTV but you did show it being done on the laptop browser. , so I tried to find it as you showed and it wasn't there. Maybe when it gets released from beta we will be able to do it.
This is wonderful! I have some family photos at a relatives house which are framed, and can't be removed . This will be ideal. I also have old color photos where the color has faded and yellowed. Will this optimize the colors?
Thanks so much for this. I've been procrastinating about getting my grandmother's photos out - as a kid I'd look through them with her for hours and now she's gone it reminds me she's gone so I've procrastinated. Your video got me so keen I immediately got out the box and uploaded several photos to my family tree - both on ancestry and My Heritage. Both really great. I sent some colourised pictures to my mother and she loved them. 🥰
If you wanted to make a hard copy from ancestry, could you. if you’re taking a page out of an album with many pictures, can you make hard copies of each picture?
Thank you so much. This solved a problem for me. I had an extremely large portrait of my GGG Grandparents - the ONLY likeness we had of her. It was too large to scan on a flatbed scanner, and rather fragile. I was able to safely get it out of the glass and scan it with my phone. You are awesome!
Thanks for this excellent overview of the new tool, Connie, I Love this new scanning feature, but I seem to not have a part of the editing software. I can scan the photo but then I cannot edit, enhance, But I can FINALLY colorize - I take the photo & it simply loads it and when its done it showed the photo and at the bottom, it ONLY has colorize and rotate - its work in progress I Know- as it took 4 weeks to update & I found out on the website FIRST & I thought hmm I better look if I can update & I did - will be THRILLED when I can be able to fully use all options that you have -- thanks again for EVERYTHING you do for us Connie
It may be that the enhance and colorize options are only currently available for iPhone and not us Android users. No ANCESTRY update available in GOOGLE PLAY for the app yet for me. Scanning worked great for me, but Iike the others, I am missing the editing features.
No. If you’re uploading to Ancestry, you are giving them rights to share it. The reason they do that is because they can’t control who’s going to copy it.
So informative and helpful. Thanks Connie! Do you have any feedback or insight on which application or method gives the best resolution/quality images? Turboscan, Ancestry app, digital camera, flatbed scanner, portable scanner wand, etc? I get there might be specific instances where one method might be more preferential over another based on the situation, like not wanting to force flat an old scrapbook in a flatbed scanner or might want to use a digital camera or phone app for something when on the road. But say, if home and scanning a box of photos, will we get a better quality using one method over the other?
A home scanner for sure will be the higher resolution. I have a Brother flatbed that I can set the resolution on up to 1200 x 1200 px (it's an older scanner). The Ancestry app is going to limit the resolution. If you are uploading images or documents the limit is 15mb. So it is likely the app is at the same resolution. The app is great for quick captures. It is fine for most documents. If you need a high resolution scan of an image, so you can zoom in and see the details, then use a flatbed scanner... it's more time consuming but worth the preservation.
