AI Photo Restoration

Blurry Birthday Photos

A blurry birthday 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 birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Unblur Old Photos is the tool for blurry birthday 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 birthday photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the candles and the party hats end up where they always were in the blurry original.

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

Blurry Birthday Photos, the original print
Blurry Birthday 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

  • Small faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit that the blur has taken the detail from
  • Blurry birthday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A blurry birthday photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
  • Soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look, spread over a birthday photo

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 cake, the candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.

    Unblur Old Photos
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the birthday photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the blur is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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