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THE MYHERITAGE PHOTO ENHANCERResearcher Julia Casey recommends the Photo Enhancer program on MyHeritage.com. -Editor I subscribe to the genealogy site MyHeritage.com mainly for the Photo Enhancer program. It is designed to improve family photographs, but I found it can be used to enhance and colorize all sorts of old photos, including coin collection catalog plates. As an example of an enhancement of a photograph of a person, below is an enhanced and colorized photo of an individual from the NARA Secret Service counterfeiting file.
Angilina Arsena
The October 18, 1888 New York Times reported that Angilina Arsena was sentenced to “two days and $1 fine for passing counterfeit dimes.”
Original Photograph 
Enhanced Photograph 
Enhanced & Colorized Photograph And just for kicks I ran both the colorized Parmelee and Stickney catalog photos through the colorizing again and made some noticeable changes. I originally thought that it was a one-time process, but apparently, it can build on itself. The screenshots of the Parmelee and Stickney catalogs are from the Newman Numismatic Portal.
Parmelee Plate I
Original 
Color-restored 
Enhanced and Color-restored.
Stickney Plate III
Original 
Enhanced and Color-restored Nice results. Thanks for the tip! -Editor
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