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A Free App Used AI to Bring These 10 Stunning Photos to Life

This modern app can bring you closer to your past

Toni Tails
5 min readJan 8, 2021

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Public Domain photo of Abraham Lincoln digitally enhanced by the author

Technology may be the wave of the future, but it’s also bringing us face-to-face with our past. I found an app that was created to enhance old family photos, and I decided to see how well it worked on famous historical figures.

The results were astounding. All I had to do was push a button and wait a minute — often less!

Billy the Kid

This photo is in the public domain

Did you know that Billy the Kid’s first reported crime happened when he was around fourteen years old? He helped a man steal clothes from a laundry!

Billy the Kid’s life was short. He died at around twenty-one, but he was famous before he died. He stayed famous over the years — the first movie made about him was a silent film, and they still make movies and television shows about him today.

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Toni Tails
Toni Tails

Written by Toni Tails

CEO of Toni Tails Design | Published Author & Illustrator| Body Positive Graphic Artist | Autism Mama | Survivor of Child Sex Abuse | PTSD ADHD Queer | she/her

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