AI Photo Restoration

Blurry Band Photos

A blurry band photo is a common case: a slow shutter, a subject who moved, a lens that was never sharp or a camera held by a child leaves soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look, and band photos from the 1930s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Unblur Old Photos is the tool for blurry band photos: it targets soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look and leaves the rest of the band photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head end up where they always were in the blurry original.

Scan the blurry band photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the blur is the only thing left to repair. The band photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the blur.

Blurry Band Photos, the original print
Blurry Band Photos
OriginalRestored

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 band photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head, 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 band photos from the 1930s to 1990s
  • Small faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments that the blur has taken the detail from

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head in the band photo untouched.

    Unblur Old Photos
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the band photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on band photos, flash bounce off the brass, a stage that went black and a photocopy standing in for the lost print, once the blur is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the band photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry band photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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