▶ How to repair your old and cracked photos from your mobile

The old photos that we keep of our parents or grandparents are a true treasure. But there are times that over time they end up cracking and spoiling, so that unless we are very careful we can lose them. Therefore, this time we are going to learn how to repair your old and cracked photos from your mobile In this way, you will have a digital copy in which the cracks and damages have disappeared, preserving its original appearance.

Repairing cracked and old photos has always been possible with tools like Photoshop and other similar photo editors.But it had to be done by hand and it was quite a laborious task. What we are going to learn this time is to do it automatically by simply uploading the images to an application on your smartphone.

For this we are going to use the application MyHeritage It is a totally free application that is initially designed for the creation of family trees , but it has tools that can be very useful for photographic retouching.

Steps to repair your photos with MyHeritage

The first thing you need to do to repair your photos is go to MyHeritage and upload the old photos you want to repair. Then enter the Photos section and all the ones you have uploaded will appear. There you will have to choose the photo you want to fix.

If the application itself detects that the photo is damaged, you will see how a button appears at the top with an icon in the shape of a band-aid with the legend Repair By clicking on it, the program will automatically remove all the cracks and scratches that it can find in the photo. This way, it will stay like new.

If it does not detect it as broken but you think it is, click on the icon with three dots that will appear at the top. There a menu will appear in which you can find the Repair button. Once the photo is fixed, in addition to having it stored on MyHeritage, you will also have the option to download it and have it on your mobile device.

What else we can do on MyHeritage

While this option is very useful, MyHeritage isn't really a photo editor, so fixing old images isn't its job major.

MyHeritage allows you to create a family tree with images of your relatives, both current and ancestors.It has a very interesting version that allows you to animate the photos you have of people who are no longer there. Having a slideshow with moving photos of your whole family is undoubtedly a very interesting memory that most users will be passionate about.

But probably one of its most interesting functions is to help you find new relatives With a community of more than 80 million users , you will be able to get in touch with people with whom you have common family roots and whom you may not know personally. It also has an important registry with a large number of people in which you can find relatives who at some point lost track.

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In addition to MyHeritage, there are many other mobile applications that will allow you to easily edit photos. Here are some helpful tricks that will make the pictures you take that much more eye-catching:

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