Immigration Photos
Blurry Immigration Photos
Blurry immigration photos usually come out of a slow shutter, a subject who moved, a lens that was never sharp or a camera held by a child. On a immigration photo the blur shows as soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look, right across a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the blurry immigration photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back left as they were. Where the blur covered a face in immigration photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the blur on the immigration photo is worse than it looks, run Unblur Old Photos twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the blurry immigration photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back, 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 immigration photos from the 1890s to 1950s
- Small faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country that the blur has taken the detail from
- Blurry immigration 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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back in the immigration photo untouched.
Unblur Old Photos - 02
Repair the rest of the immigration photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on immigration photos, prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold, once the blur is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Sharpen the faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country
Recovers the eye and skin detail the blur softened; keep it at natural strength on immigration photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the immigration photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry immigration photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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