colorizing black & white photos
Fairly recently, a company has introduced a program that will colorize photographs. Some persons are going thru family trees, downloading photos already in Memories, colorizing them, and then re-posting them to the person's page. Many cases involve persons not in the same family tree. The result is a slightly degraded color photo of the person or group that duplicates the original photo, which remains as it was in Memories. So far, of the photos I have seen, the person(s) have not gone to the effort to identify all persons in the photo, nor to include any metadata that may have been in the original photo. Because the colorized photo is posted to Memories as a new photo, a few identifications made in the color photographs have been for the wrong person. None have tagged individual faces.
My question is, what, if any, is the policy or advice about this practice of colorizing photos? I would think some assumptions must be made about the color of the clothing and the background without any knowledge of what they really were. Is there a need or preference for colorizing black & white photos? Should we discourage this practice? If so, how best we do it?
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Personally I dont see the need to colorize - but thats just my personal opinion - and my personal opinion is not going to stop anyone else - if they wish to proceed.
I agree with many of your points
but many of your points are no less true of people for people not colorizing - but simply posting duplicate photos - which may not have the same quality, may not be labeled correctly, may not be tagged correctly etc,
In short many of the points you point out - are not unique to colorized photos - but could apply to just about any upload . . .
so though I am also a little annoyed abut people "over zealous" in colorizing . . . we live in a world where i doubt anything will stop it.
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Does the person who is colorizing have the right to use, change, and post the photos?
Item 2 of the Content Submission Agreement:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/legal/familysearch-trees-submission-agreement
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many photos that are colorized are of the 19th century and would be in the Public Domain.
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I've seen many 20th-century photos - from my personal collection - downloaded from other sites, without permission, colorized and posted to FamilySearch.
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https://palette.fm is new and does a pretty great job with this.
What I'd like to see is permitting a single photo to have multiple versions. Ideally, when these photos are colorized, all the metadata like who is there and where would be preserved and the UI would let you switch between versions of the same photo.
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You can upload as many versions of a photo you wish there is no limit. But I prefer the original untouched
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