Class Photos
Faded Class Photos
Class photos showing milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper have almost always met dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight. The fading sits on top of the image of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the class photo is redrawn for effect; the fading is treated as a layer to remove and the image of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side as the thing to keep. If the faded area covered each child's face, the name board and the teacher, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Faded Photo Fixer on the faded class photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the class photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on faded class 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
- A faded class 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 class photo
- A faded class photo that is the only copy anyone has
- Each child's face, the name board and the teacher, hidden under the fading
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 each child's face, the name board and the teacher in the class photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the class photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on class photos, a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends, once the fading is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fading softened; keep it at natural strength on class photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the class photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fading repair, with the shape of the faded class photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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