Holiday Photos
Blurry Holiday Photos
Holiday 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 the family around the tree, the table or the menorah, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the holiday photo is redrawn for effect; the blur is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the family around the tree, the table or the menorah as the thing to keep. If the blurry area covered the decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Unblur Old Photos on the blurry holiday photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the holiday photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on blurry holiday 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
- The decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights, 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 holiday photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of the family around the tree, the table or the menorah that the blur has taken the detail from
- Blurry holiday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights in the holiday photo untouched.
Unblur Old Photos - 02
Repair the rest of the holiday photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on holiday photos, an orange cast from indoor bulbs, red-eye from the flash and a date stamp in the corner, once the blur is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of the family around the tree, the table or the menorah
Recovers the eye and skin detail the blur softened; keep it at natural strength on holiday photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the holiday photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry holiday photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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