Tuell.net — An arboretum of our family trees
Description: An arboretum of our family trees
An arboretum of our family trees
One of my favorite family photos is well over a century old. My great-grandfather, Dr. Thomas Joshua Frost, and his family are gathered on the porch of his home in Erin Springs, Oklahoma Indian Territory, about 1897. The version you see here, though, has little resemblance to the original due to some interesting photo processing available to those of us fortunate enough to have a trove of old family photos passed down from our ancestors.
First of all, the original photo was scanned and tightly cropped to show the family on the porch. It was cleaned up and sharpened a bit in my ancient version of Adobe Photoshop. Then, MyHeritage.com came out with its online app that enhanced and colorized old photos. (The genealogy website also features an algorithm that animates portraits, but more on that later.)
Tuell.net — An arboretum of our family trees