AI Photo Restoration

Faded Birthday Photos

A faded birthday photo is a common case: dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight leaves milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper, and birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for faded birthday photos: it targets milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper and leaves the rest of the birthday photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the candles and the party hats end up where they always were in the faded original.

Scan the faded birthday photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the fading is the only thing left to repair. The birthday photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the fading.

Faded Birthday Photos, the original print
Faded Birthday Photos
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

  • A faded birthday photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
  • Milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper, spread over a birthday photo
  • A faded birthday photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The cake, the candles and the party hats, hidden under the fading

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 cake, the candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the birthday photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the fading is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fading repair, with the shape of the faded birthday photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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