Anniversary Photos
Fire-Damaged Anniversary Photos
Anniversary photos showing charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely have almost always met a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater. The fire damage sits on top of the image of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the anniversary photo is redrawn for effect; the fire damage is treated as a layer to remove and the image of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children as the thing to keep. If the fire-damaged area covered the cake, the banner and the couple's faces, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Photo Restoration on the fire-damaged anniversary photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the anniversary photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on fire-damaged anniversary 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 fire-damaged anniversary photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely, spread over a anniversary photo
- A fire-damaged anniversary photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The cake, the banner and the couple's faces, hidden under the fire damage
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the fire damage
Photo Restoration targets charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely while keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the anniversary photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on anniversary photos, an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light, once the fire damage is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fire damage softened; keep it at natural strength on anniversary photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged anniversary photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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