Wedding Photos
Blurry Wedding Photos
Wedding 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 couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the wedding photo is redrawn for effect; the blur is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents as the thing to keep. If the blurry area covered the lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Unblur Old Photos on the blurry wedding photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the wedding photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on blurry wedding 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
- Soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look, spread over a wedding photo
- A blurry wedding photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet, 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 wedding photos from the 1920s to 1990s
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 lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet in the wedding photo untouched.
Unblur Old Photos - 02
Repair the rest of the wedding photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on wedding photos, creases from years in a wallet, silvering along the edge of the veil and a magenta shift in 1970s color prints, once the blur is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents
Recovers the eye and skin detail the blur softened; keep it at natural strength on wedding photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the wedding photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the blur repair, with the shape of the blurry wedding photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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