Funeral and Memorial Photos
Fire-Damaged Funeral and Memorial Photos
Funeral and memorial 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 the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the memorial photo is redrawn for effect; the fire damage is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them as the thing to keep. If the fire-damaged area covered the face, the expression and the way they held themselves, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Photo Restoration on the fire-damaged memorial photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the funeral and memorial photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on fire-damaged funeral and memorial 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-damaged funeral and memorial photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A fire-damaged memorial 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 memorial photo
- A fire-damaged memorial photo that is the only copy anyone has
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 face, the expression and the way they held themselves in the memorial photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the memorial photo
Memorial Portrait addresses the usual wear on funeral and memorial photos, a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge, once the fire damage is gone.
Memorial Portrait - 03
Sharpen the faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fire damage softened; keep it at natural strength on funeral and memorial photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the memorial photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged funeral and memorial photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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