Band Photos
Fire-Damaged Band Photos
A fire-damaged band photo is a common case: a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater leaves charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely, and band photos from the 1930s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Photo Restoration is the tool for fire-damaged band photos: it targets charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely and leaves the rest of the band photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head end up where they always were in the fire-damaged original.
Scan the fire-damaged band photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the fire damage is the only thing left to repair. The band photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the fire damage.


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
- Small faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged band photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A fire-damaged band 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 band photo
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 instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head in the band photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the band photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on band photos, flash bounce off the brass, a stage that went black and a photocopy standing in for the lost print, once the fire damage is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Upscale the band photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged band photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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