Grandparents Photos
Fire-Damaged Grandparents Photos
A fire-damaged grandparent 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 grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Photo Restoration is the tool for fire-damaged grandparents 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 grandparent photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the expression, the glasses and the hands end up where they always were in the fire-damaged original.
Scan the fire-damaged grandparent 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 grandparents 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 expression, the glasses and the hands, 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 grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s
- Small faces of a grandmother or grandfather, sometimes together, in the only portrait ever taken of them that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged grandparents 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 expression, the glasses and the hands in the grandparent photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the grandparent photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on grandparents photos, the one surviving print handled by every relative, fingerprinted, softly creased and worn at the edges, once the fire damage is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Upscale the grandparent photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged grandparents photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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