What does restoring a class photo cost?

One Standard run of any tool on class photos is covered by the 4 free credits a new account starts with. Pro and Max use more credits and return more detail on a class photo; the pricing page has the current numbers.

Do I need a scanner for class photos?

No. A phone photo of the class photo works; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop, straighten and remove glare, then restore the result.

Can I reprint the restored class photo large?

After restoring, send class photos through the Image Upscaler. The output keeps the shape of the class photo upload and gains the pixels a wall print or an enlargement needs.

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Restore old class photos

Q: Which tool should I start with for class photos?

Face Restoration is the usual first step for a class photo; it addresses a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends. Chain a second tool in the Studio if the print needs more.

Most class photos exist as one print, sometimes two, showing thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side. Made from the 1920s to 1990s, class photos arrive here with a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends.

Every tool here treats class photos as a repair job rather than a re-creation: each child's face, the name board and the teacher stay as photographed and the output follows the shape of the upload. Where a class photo is missing a corner, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.

Start with Face Restoration for a typical class photo, then chain Scratch & Tear Repair, Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio as the print needs. A new account has 4 free credits, which covers one Standard restoration of class photos.

Open with these settings Face Restoration

Restore old class 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 thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side, which fall apart when enlarged
Color casts on class photos from the 1920s to 1990s that hide the real skin tones
Each child's face, the name board and the teacher, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
One surviving class photo that every relative wants a clean copy of

Suggested order of passes

01
Run Face Restoration on the class photo
The first pass for class photos: it takes on a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends while keeping each child's face, the name board and the teacher as photographed.
Face Restoration
02
Repair what the first pass left on the class photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on class photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration
03
Sharpen the faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side
Recovers eye and skin detail in class photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration
04
Upscale the class photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of class photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler