Wartime Photos
Blurry Wartime Photos
A blurry wartime 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 wartime photos from the 1910s to 1940s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Unblur Old Photos is the tool for blurry wartime 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 wartime photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting end up where they always were in the blurry original.
Scan the blurry wartime photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the blur is the only thing left to repair. The wartime photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the blur.


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 soldier at camp, a sweetheart back home or a family in a bombed street that the blur has taken the detail from
- Blurry wartime photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A blurry wartime 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 wartime photo
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 uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting in the wartime photo untouched.
Unblur Old Photos - 02
Repair the rest of the wartime photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on wartime photos, tiny contact prints, censor marks, folds from being mailed in a letter and fading from a mantelpiece, once the blur is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Upscale the wartime photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry wartime photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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