Classic Car Photos
Fire-Damaged Classic Car Photos
A fire-damaged car 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 classic car photos from the 1930s to 1970s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Photo Restoration is the tool for fire-damaged classic car 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 car photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the chrome trim, the badge and the license plate end up where they always were in the fire-damaged original.
Scan the fire-damaged car 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 classic car 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
- The chrome trim, the badge and the license plate, hidden under the fire damage
- Fire damage from a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater, on classic car photos from the 1930s to 1970s
- Small faces of a proud owner leaning on the fender, usually in the driveway that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged classic car photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 chrome trim, the badge and the license plate in the car photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the car photo
Unblur Old Photos addresses the usual wear on classic car photos, chrome that reads as blown white, a magenta shift over the paintwork and scratches across the hood, once the fire damage is gone.
Unblur Old Photos - 03
Upscale the car photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged classic car photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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