Baby Photos
Faded Baby Photos
Faded baby photos usually come out of dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight. On a baby photo the fading shows as milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper, right across a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the faded baby photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern left as they were. Where the fading covered a face in baby photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the fading on the baby photo is worse than it looks, run Faded Photo Fixer twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the faded baby 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
- Fading from dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight, on baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s
- Small faces of a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up that the fading has taken the detail from
- Faded baby photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A faded baby photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the fading
Faded Photo Fixer targets milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper while keeping the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern in the baby photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the baby photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on baby photos, soft focus from a slow lens, thumbprints on the emulsion and whites gone warm and yellow, once the fading is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fading softened; keep it at natural strength on baby photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the baby photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fading repair, with the shape of the faded baby photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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