AI Photo Restoration

Faded Grandparents Photos

A faded grandparent 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 grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for faded grandparents 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 grandparent photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the expression, the glasses and the hands end up where they always were in the faded original.

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

Faded Grandparents Photos, the original print
Faded Grandparents 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

  • Milky shadows, grey whites and a cast that drifts toward orange, magenta or cyan depending on the paper, spread over a grandparent photo
  • A faded grandparent photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The expression, the glasses and the hands, hidden under the fading
  • Fading from dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight, on grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s

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 expression, the glasses and the hands in the grandparent photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the grandparent photo

    Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on grandparents photos, the one surviving print handled by every relative, fingerprinted, softly creased and worn at the edges, once the fading is gone.

    Face Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the grandparent photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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