Anniversary Photos
Blurry Anniversary Photos
Anniversary photos showing soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look have almost always met a slow shutter, a subject who moved, a lens that was never sharp or a camera held by a child. The blur sits on top of the image of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the anniversary photo is redrawn for effect; the blur is treated as a layer to remove and the image of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children as the thing to keep. If the blurry area covered the cake, the banner and the couple's faces, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Unblur Old Photos on the blurry anniversary photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the anniversary photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on blurry 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
- A blurry anniversary photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The cake, the banner and the couple's faces, hidden under the blur
- Blur from a slow shutter, a subject who moved, a lens that was never sharp or a camera held by a child, on anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children that the blur has taken the detail from
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the blur
Unblur Old Photos targets soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look while keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.
Unblur Old Photos - 02
Repair the rest of the anniversary photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on anniversary photos, an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light, once the blur is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children
Recovers the eye and skin detail the blur softened; keep it at natural strength on anniversary photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry anniversary photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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