Wedding Photos
Faded Wedding Photos
Wedding 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 the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the wedding photo is redrawn for effect; the fading is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents as the thing to keep. If the faded area covered the lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Faded Photo Fixer on the faded wedding photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the wedding photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on faded wedding 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
- Fading from dye layers breaking down over decades, faster in warmth and daylight, on wedding photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents that the fading has taken the detail from
- Faded wedding photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A faded wedding 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 lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet in the wedding photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the wedding photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on wedding photos, creases from years in a wallet, silvering along the edge of the veil and a magenta shift in 1970s color prints, once the fading is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fading softened; keep it at natural strength on wedding photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the wedding photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fading repair, with the shape of the faded wedding photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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