AI Photo Restoration

Fire-Damaged Birthday Photos

A fire-damaged birthday 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 birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Photo Restoration is the tool for fire-damaged birthday 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 birthday photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the candles and the party hats end up where they always were in the fire-damaged original.

Scan the fire-damaged birthday 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 birthday photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the fire damage.

Fire-Damaged Birthday Photos, the original print
Fire-Damaged Birthday 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

  • Fire damage from a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater, on birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s
  • Small faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit that the fire damage has taken the detail from
  • Fire-damaged birthday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A fire-damaged birthday photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.

    Photo Restoration
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the birthday photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the fire damage is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged birthday photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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