Childhood Photos
Fire-Damaged Childhood Photos
Childhood 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 you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the childhood photo is redrawn for effect; the fire damage is treated as a layer to remove and the image of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike as the thing to keep. If the fire-damaged area covered the toys, the clothing and the expression, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Photo Restoration on the fire-damaged childhood photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the childhood photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on fire-damaged childhood 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
- Fire damage from a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater, on childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged childhood photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A fire-damaged childhood photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Run a full pass on the childhood photo
Picks up the remaining scratches, fading and softness on fire-damaged childhood photos after the fire damage is removed.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fire damage softened; keep it at natural strength on childhood photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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