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Restore old anniversary photos
Most anniversary photos exist as one print, sometimes two, showing a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children. Made from the 1950s to 1990s, anniversary photos arrive here with an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light.
Every tool here treats anniversary photos as a repair job rather than a re-creation: the cake, the banner and the couple's faces stay as photographed and the output follows the shape of the upload. Where a anniversary photo is missing a corner, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Faded Photo Fixer for a typical anniversary photo, then chain Scratch & Tear Repair, Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio as the print needs. A new account has 4 free credits, which covers one Standard restoration of anniversary photos.
Original on the left, restored on the right; hover to see more of the repair. Made in the Studio from a scan of the print.
What matters for these photos
- Small faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children, which fall apart when enlarged
- Color casts on anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s that hide the real skin tones
- The cake, the banner and the couple's faces, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving anniversary photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Faded Photo Fixer on the anniversary photo
The first pass for anniversary photos: it takes on an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light while keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces as photographed.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the anniversary photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on anniversary photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children
Recovers eye and skin detail in anniversary photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of anniversary photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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