Fire-Damaged Pet Photos

When fire damage reaches a pet photo, the result is charred and curled edges, a brown scorch gradient, soot in the grain and areas lost entirely. The cause is nearly always a house fire, a smoke-filled room or a print that sat too close to a heater, and pet photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the fire-damaged pet photo as a repair job: it removes the fire damage and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the markings, the collar and the coat texture as photographed. Faces of a dog, cat or horse, sometimes with a child holding the lead that were lost to the fire damage are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For fire-damaged pet photos the order is fire damage first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a pet photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a fire-damaged print more detail for reprinting.