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Restore old baby photos
Most baby photos exist as one print, sometimes two, showing a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up. Made from the 1930s to 1980s, baby photos arrive here with soft focus from a slow lens, thumbprints on the emulsion and whites gone warm and yellow.
Every tool here treats baby photos as a repair job rather than a re-creation: the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern stay as photographed and the output follows the shape of the upload. Where a baby photo is missing a corner, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Face Restoration for a typical baby 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 baby 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 newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up, which fall apart when enlarged
- Color casts on baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s that hide the real skin tones
- The christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving baby photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Face Restoration on the baby photo
The first pass for baby photos: it takes on soft focus from a slow lens, thumbprints on the emulsion and whites gone warm and yellow while keeping the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern as photographed.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the baby photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on baby photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up
Recovers eye and skin detail in baby photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the baby photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of baby photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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