Immigration Photos
Fire-Damaged Immigration Photos
Fire-damaged immigration photos usually come out of a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater. On a immigration photo the fire damage shows as charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely, right across a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the fire-damaged immigration photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back left as they were. Where the fire damage covered a face in immigration photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the fire damage on the immigration photo is worse than it looks, run Photo Restoration twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the fire-damaged immigration photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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 immigration photos from the 1890s to 1950s
- Small faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged immigration photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A fire-damaged immigration 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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back in the immigration photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the immigration photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on immigration photos, prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold, once the fire damage is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Sharpen the faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country
Recovers the eye and skin detail the fire damage softened; keep it at natural strength on immigration photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the immigration photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged immigration photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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