Do I need to scan blurry school photos?

A flat scan is best, but a phone photo of the blurry school portrait works too; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop and remove glare, then repair the blur.

How many credits does a blurry school portrait take?

The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard restoration of blurry school photos. Pro and Max return more detail on the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile where the blur was heavy; see pricing for the current amounts.

Can I colorize the school portrait after fixing the blur?

Yes. Repair the blurry school portrait first, then run the Photo Colorizer on the result. Colors are inferred from the era and the materials in the repaired blurry school photos, so type any remembered colors into the hints field.

What if the blur took part of the school portrait away entirely?

Run Missing Parts Filler after Unblur Old Photos and describe the gap the blur left in the school portrait. It continues the scene, clothing and background of the school portrait from what survives; a face fully gone from blurry school photos cannot be recovered, only inferred.

School Photos

Blurry School Photos

School 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 one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn, which is still there underneath.

Nothing in the school portrait is redrawn for effect; the blur is treated as a layer to remove and the image of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn as the thing to keep. If the blurry area covered the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.

Start with Unblur Old Photos on the blurry school portrait, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the school photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on blurry school photos.

Open with these settings Unblur Old Photos

Blurry School Photos, the original print

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 one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn that the blur has taken the detail from
Blurry school photos that a copy shop refused to touch
A blurry school portrait 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 school portrait

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 backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile in the school portrait untouched.
Unblur Old Photos
02
Repair the rest of the school portrait
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on school photos, wallet-size prints traded between friends, creased, stuck to album pages and faded to orange, once the blur is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer
03
Sharpen the faces of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn
Recovers the eye and skin detail the blur softened; keep it at natural strength on school photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration
04
Upscale the school portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry school photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler