House Photos
Fire-Damaged House Photos
House 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 family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the house photo is redrawn for effect; the fire damage is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard as the thing to keep. If the fire-damaged area covered the porch details, the windows and the house number, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Photo Restoration on the fire-damaged house photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the house photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on fire-damaged house 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
- The porch details, the windows and the house number, 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s
- Small faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged house 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 porch details, the windows and the house number in the house photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the house photo
Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on house photos, mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white, once the fire damage is gone.
Stain & Spot Remover - 03
Sharpen the faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fire damage softened; keep it at natural strength on house photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the house photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged house photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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