Graduation Photos
Faded Graduation Photos
Faded graduation photos usually come out of dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight. On a graduation 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 the graduate in cap and gown, often with a parent standing just behind.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the faded graduation photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the tassel, the diploma and the school crest left as they were. Where the fading covered a face in graduation photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the fading on the graduation photo is worse than it looks, run Faded Photo Fixer twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the faded graduation 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
- The tassel, the diploma and the school crest, hidden under the fading
- Fading from dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight, on graduation photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of the graduate in cap and gown, often with a parent standing just behind that the fading has taken the detail from
- Faded graduation photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 tassel, the diploma and the school crest in the graduation photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Run a full pass on the graduation photo
Picks up the remaining scratches, fading and softness on faded graduation photos after the fading is removed.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of the graduate in cap and gown, often with a parent standing just behind
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fading softened; keep it at natural strength on graduation photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the graduation photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fading repair, with the shape of the faded graduation photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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