Fire-Damaged Sports Team Photos

When fire damage reaches a team 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 sports team photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the fire-damaged team photo as a repair job: it removes the fire damage and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner as photographed. Faces of two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front that were lost to the fire damage are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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