Ancestry's New Photo Scanning Cropping Colorizing Enhancing and Immediate Upload

[@m.moseley1964]

Thanks!

[@GenealogyTV]

Hey thanks for the tip!. I do appreciate it.

[@GenealogyTV]

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.

[@eileenmurphy2019]

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.

[@vintagethistle]

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...

[@teresaeckford5072]

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 :)

[@nikkilacroix910]

I dont have any of the enhancing or colorization :(

[@ridif]

@@eileenmurphy2019 same here

[@auntpie]

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!

[@jackiemedeiros8019]

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!!!!

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome!

[@henrikeith3056]

Fantastic! Thanks Connie for explaining how to use this and keeping all of us up-to-date. Love all the upgrades Ancestry is working on. Thanks again!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks Henri

[@mariacapaldi5062]

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]

I know what you’ll be doing this weekend.

[@mariacapaldi5062]

@@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!

[@katieblackwater2233]

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. 🥰

[@GenealogyTV]

Yay!

[@sherylfinch1428]

Yay! Thank you Ancestry for this and you, Connie, for telling us how to use it!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks Sheryl. And thank you for your continued support.

[@elletee]

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. :-))))

[@utubetubular]

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!

[@onejazzed]

Thanks Connie for the lesson! I had no idea this was even there. Thanks to you l found it!

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@djsingp]

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!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks

[@blueskies103]

Thank you Connie !!! I've started scanning already

[@GenealogyTV]

Yay!

[@kaybobbitt7787]

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.

[@carokat1111]

Thanks Connie. I never use my app but now I can see I should be.

[@GenealogyTV]

I love it when I’m at a family members house and they ask me a question about the family, I can look it up on the app.

[@Nada62]

Thanks for this great overview of the new tool, Connie. You rock!

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome Renate. Hope you are doing well. Happy Mother's Day!

[@robynjohnson5750]

Thank you so very much for this tutorial. It helped me a lot. 👍❤️

[@kathleenkelley1299]

Love this new scanning feature - thanks for the great tutorial

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nickiboyle9077]

Hey Connie, thank you so much for your video! I watch your videos from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦 Love your videos

[@GenealogyTV]

Hey Nicki. Thanks so much!

[@Ellandriel]

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.

[@GenealogyTV]

Good to know. I hadn’t tried that.

[@toinimoore3463]

Oh I like this Adobe didn’t keep original back in 2002 and I wasn’t pleased with the color! This is so much better!

[@GenealogyTV]

Great to hear!

[@ASMRPeople]

I'd love to see the enhance & colorize features for existing photos. Perhaps in the future.

[@cynthiaaustin4161]

Thank you a million times! I’ve lots of ancestor pictures to add to our tree and this will be a wonderful tool..

[@GenealogyTV]

I wish I could take credit for it. I can only take credit for the video. Have fun.

[@elletee]

Thank you Connie. Very interesting and helpful.

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tedmetzger7017]

A very nice new tool. Thanks for the tutorial on its use!

[@GenealogyTV]

You're welcome!

[@williampeiffer9468]

Great video. I put this to immediate use. Thanks

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@GenealogyTV]

Hey thanks for your continued support.

[@dorasmith7875]

This video was extremely useful! Thanks!

[@jasonryg1203]

Hello dear how are you doing ?

[@GenealogyTV]

You're welcome!

[@CraigPetrieNZ]

Thanks for the tutorial, really appreciated.

[@GenealogyTV]

My pleasure.

[@OIII-IOOO]

great tutorial and great new feature. i never knew about the tree gallery only the individual profile galleries.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yeah. I had forgotten about it until I did this video.

[@glendastaples9536]

Thanks for sharing and the how to. I'm excited to give it a try.

[@GenealogyTV]

Have fun!

[@whitneylc117]

This is a great feature! I now have plans this weekend!

[@GenealogyTV]

Enjoy!

[@mandypratley9723]

Thanks for showing us all how it works 😍

[@GenealogyTV]

My Pleasure.

[@jeanneannmowerlee]

I absolutely love this!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks!

[@teresaeckford5072]

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

[@hemichallenger3643]

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.

[@letlovereign]

Yay! Great vid as usual. Hopefully this means folks on my tree will add a bunch of new photos lol

[@GenealogyTV]

I hope so!

[@cathyhughes991]

This is so cool!!!

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes!

[@minikitz5642]

Wow. Pretty cool! Thank you.

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad you liked it!

[@miarobv]

Very useful information.

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@patriciascott1717]

Great video.

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@naomifron4545]

This is awesome, thank you for sharing it!

[@GenealogyTV]

My pleasure!

[@donnabeard9344]

Love this new feature

[@leannwilson2668]

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

[@GenealogyTV]

Hummm… maybe it hasn’t rolled out to you yet.

[@twrecks9119]

Same here.

[@maychang1000]

I am not able to edit either.

[@lvsfan1974]

I have the same problem. All I can do is scan, not edit the photo. I've deleted the App and reloaded, still nothing

[@SandiDandiLand]

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.

[@twrecks9119]

I am able to scan photos, but I am not getting th part where I can colorize, restore or enhance.

[@Lindys]

Same for me.uk

[@oshtoolman]

This is magic!!!!

[@ebmayes]

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!.

[@interpretermom]

This is great! Thank you.

[@sandyd-h9563]

I've been waiting for a way to edit (colourize) my photos in Ancestry, but it seems I don't have the upgraded version just yet.

[@GenealogyTV]

Sit tight. It’s coming.

[@MelanieElaineH]

If you go to your photo gallery from the home page, select your upside down or sideways scan, then click on edit. There’s a rotate icon there.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yeah I don’t think that was available at the time I created that video.

[@jacquievickerspioneerresea2730]

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!

[@jackiejardine8016]

I am having the same problem.

[@carokat1111]

Is there a Settings function that needs changing?

[@jackiejardine8016]

I deleted my Ancestry program from my telephone and reinstalled it and now everything works!

[@jacquievickerspioneerresea2730]

Oh fantastic! I'll do that too. Thank you.

[@auntpie]

@@jackiejardine8016 good idea! Are you Android or iPhone?

[@pepperspot805]

Is there any idea when this can be used by a tablet (For those of us with no cell phones )?

[@GenealogyTV]

Others are reporting that it is working on their iPad.

[@CraigPetrieNZ]

Works on my iPad with the latest Ancestry App version. Does not have the feature on the web version of Ancestry on the iPad.

[@jannwebb]

A human being without a cell phone?

[@pepperspot805]

@@jannwebb Yep, I refuse to have one until there is no other choice. :)

[@jannwebb]

@@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?

[@elainefiveland1462]

Wow! What will they think up next?? Now I need to go and play!

[@GenealogyTV]

Oh they have more up their sleeve. I can’t wait for the next update too.

[@scottbelanger9571]

Ancestry offers the option to rotate immediately after you take the picture, the option is below the picture

[@GenealogyTV]

Oh good. I had a beta version, so perhaps I missed it or it wasn't there yet.

[@firejack007]

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.

[@deborahpommer522]

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..

[@GenealogyTV]

It's not available to everyone yet.

[@lindafreas6685]

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.

[@GenealogyTV]

Several people reported the same thing. I’m wondering if it’s not rolled out to everyone yet.

[@jennifermckinnon5818]

Thanks Connie, fyi when on my iPad there is a rotate tool

[@GenealogyTV]

I think they just added that since I recorded the video before it was relased.

[@kaybobbitt7787]

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

[@auntpie]

Thanks! The options I see are colorize and rotate and I was wondering why I wasn't seeing enhance/restore. That explains it!

[@GenealogyTV]

I realize this post is a month old, but in response... I kind of wish they had left it the way it was. I liked the original options.

[@SandiDandiLand]

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.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes... it is rolled out on IOS and Android first.

[@gmagigi1]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

Ancestry is still working to roll this out from what they tell me. Hopefully things will resolve by the end of May.

[@cadoo5591]

When I click on a photo that's already in my gallery, it doesn't come up with the "(Beta) Edit" function at the top like here 8:46

[@ginagaladriel]

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

[@cadoo5591]

@@ginagaladriel I have a paid account and it's not there

[@ginagaladriel]

@@cadoo5591 then it means it might still being rolled out

[@LyndaHeines]

Thanks! Great tutorial!

[@GenealogyTV]

You're welcome!

[@gkisabeth]

great job!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks!

[@Lindys]

Great. Thank you.

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad you liked it!

[@annw1395]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

Somewhat, yes. They are still messing with this... so some features may not be available.

[@craftystash8667]

so interesting...will have to try

[@GenealogyTV]

Please do!

[@anne9677]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

They are JPGs. The video shows you how to find them on your desktop on Ancestry so you can then download them.

[@elli003]

Waited more than 10 years for that Audio files upload to function. Any movement on that feature ?

[@dawngable1738]

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!

[@GenealogyTV]

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!

[@dawngable1738]

@@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.

[@richardwilliams232]

Doesn't appear to be released yet, or maybe since you have the app (I don't) it allows it on the laptop? Looking forward to trying it out.

[@GenealogyTV]

It's in the regular Ancestry app.

[@oldsebago]

Delete the app and reinstall

[@richardwilliams232]

@@oldsebago as I stated, I do not have the app installed, so there's no way to uninstall.

[@richardwilliams232]

@@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.

[@kathydavis169]

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.

[@GenealogyTV]

Ancestry is still rolling it out to everyone. They told me they hoped it would be out to everyone by the end of May. Not sure if that happened or not.

[@bridgetrogers4499]

Having issues with it on my phone. It automatically crops and enhances. Never gives me option for coloring etc.

[@GenealogyTV]

It’s not rolled out to 100% yet. Ancestry expects it to be by the end of the month.

[@addicted2spn789]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

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.

[@addicted2spn789]

@@GenealogyTV Thanks Connie!!!

[@lauriedavis7464]

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.

[@GenealogyTV]

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.

[@lauriedavis7464]

@@GenealogyTV Thank you! That's what I thought! Thanks... love your videos!

[@candywhitney2802]

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

[@GenealogyTV]

It's called TurboScan(Tm): document scanner. I found it here (using my desktop computer) apps.apple.com/us/app/turboscan-document-scanner/id1017559099

[@lawrente]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

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.

[@deeedwards2195]

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

[@GenealogyTV]

FTDNA. That’s Family Tree DNA. It will likely go on sale when Father’s Day approaches.

[@marygrether1]

when you make those copies of the pictures, what do you do with the pain pictures??

[@GenealogyTV]

I’m not sure what you are asking.

[@nwpprice1569]

Go back to original pic and use two finger on the screen and rotate. May work.

[@sloppysmurf1231]

When it does roll out, will the enhance/colorization work on pics already saved on our tree?

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes it will.

[@bobellis814]

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.

[@GenealogyTV]

It's still not rolled out to everyone. They hope by the end of May.

[@bradleymartin4823]

Will you continue using turboscan? Do you add these photos on your computer too? In a gallery of sorts or connect to each person separate?

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes I will use Turbo Scan for documents. I will likely use this Ancestry scanning feature them most for scrapbooks, on location work, and at family reunions. :)

[@bradleymartin4823]

@@GenealogyTV Thanks...I am going to review your scanning documents video too.

[@karenwaples4380]

When will the full access to the enhancements be available. Only the Scan option is showing as Beta but the enhancements not showing

[@GenealogyTV]

Ancestry tells me by they are hoping for the end of May.

[@RingByRingDesigns]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

Things have changed since that video was produced.

[@RingByRingDesigns]

@@GenealogyTV I since have figured out that if you "tag" someone it does that rather than being downloaded from your phone app.

[@harrylittler6691]

I was using it yesterday evening and now it only come ups with with rotate which is highly annoying Any ideas why ?

[@GenealogyTV]

Check again. They should have rolled out all features by the end of May.

[@sandyparis7235]

Hello this doesn't work for me. I updated my phone app and then it came up to scan, I scanned it but it didn't give me the option to colorize. It also didn't attach it to anyone. I can't find the WHOLE gallery. What am I doing wrong, as I also looked on ancestry and there is no joint photo gallery just individual photos in people's galleries.? Maybe my app isn't working right? who would I tell or ask for help? Thank you for this video, it was simple. but doesn't work for anyone and no gallery it is found in but i see it on the photos screen

[@GenealogyTV]

This video was created during their beta phase. They have since changed the settings to one enhance feature with the color wheel icon.

[@sandyparis7235]

@@GenealogyTV yes but i cant find the total media gallery on my pc or phone so it scanned but no where to find wherre at or who attached too

[@sandyparis7235]

@@GenealogyTV Thank you for your reply, I don't se what you see, so I took a pic, it didn't ask me who to attach it too, but it came in under my personal name. So I figured itwould be on my gallery and I could just go move it to the person the photo was for BUT WAIT, there is no option on my phone for a main media gallery, so I can't find it. Then I thought okay I have to use the pc ancestry, but there is no MAIN MEDIA or ALL MEDIA button to find it SO it scanned, Loved the new feature, but now no where to find where it went on my ancy acct or what person it was attached to. I don't understand why on my android phone it doesn't have the same features you are telling here and I would love it if it worked. I have hundreds of local docs to scan and attach while I clean out/up all my old 1970 paper files. Any other ideas? Thanks so much for your help. :)

[@gaylebrooks3845]

I don't get the options to colorize, restore or enhance when I try to use the app. Can you tell me why?

[@GenealogyTV]

Ancestry is a little behind and rolling it out to everyone. They said they hope it to be out by the end of the month.

[@edwardyeutson8507]

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?

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes, kind of. You can download the images from Ancestry and then print them. I can't speak to the quality though.

[@PNW_Life]

A rotate button would be great in the app but until then a person could rotate with another program/app already on thier phone then continue the process in ancestry.

[@GenealogyTV]

Good point.

[@CraigPetrieNZ]

I’m using it on my iPad Ancestry App. I noticed It has the rotate feature.

[@annblair4459]

Awesome

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks

[@thamertanner5448]

I was just looking at portable scanner wands cuz I want to go around and scan all my family's photos. I don't know that I want everything to auto upload to Ancestry though.

[@GenealogyTV]

You could just photograph them with your phone and then upload to ancestry the ones you want using the gallery instead of their scanning feature.

[@thamertanner5448]

@@GenealogyTV Hey do you have any advice on how to open old photo albums where the pictures are all stuck together?

[@JohnHWelch]

When I try scanning photo Is scans and crops it and enhances and 2 Ancestry Gallery Can't do anything with it

[@GenealogyTV]

They keep changing the features on this and in different regions.

[@deannakay6607]

My photos do not have the Edit feature. Anyone know why? (I have an Android.)

[@GenealogyTV]

Humm... it was my understanding that this was available on both IOS and Android. It might not be rolled out yet where you are?????

[@patriciascott1717]

@@GenealogyTV I have an Android and it is not working for me. The media gallery icon does not appear. Everything else on the screen comes up.

[@Lindys]

My android doesn’t either. I am in the uk. I can scan but not enhance etc

[@donbloomer8083]

I am a member of Ancestry, but I cannot find out how to get this app. Do you have a link?

[@GenealogyTV]

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.

[@kaybobbitt7787]

When you scan a document how/where do you add the resource information?

[@kaybobbitt7787]

I guess in the rest of the photo information

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes.

[@ridif]

I don't get colorize restore or enhance options... just save.

[@connieburton432]

How about those of us who do NOT have smart phone- what can we do?

[@GenealogyTV]

I use a flatbed scanner/printer from the office supply store. Mine is an older Brother scanner.

[@debbiemcarthur9549]

I got the app last night just for this feature...while it's easier to get photos..I don't have the edit button to enhance my photos

[@GenealogyTV]

Ancestry has not rolled it out 100% yet. They expect it by the end of the month.

[@bridgetrogers4499]

Wont work on android but had my daughter do some today with iphone. Worked pretty good. Some pics didnt color well but overall good.

[@GenealogyTV]

I think it is out on Android now. You might want to check.

[@patsullivanhenshaw-grow5361]

I can't find the handout for this.

[@GenealogyTV]

I reposted it for you in the members tab.