Wartime Photos
Fire-Damaged Wartime Photos
A fire-damaged wartime 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 wartime photos from the 1910s to 1940s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Photo Restoration is the tool for fire-damaged wartime 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 wartime photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting end up where they always were in the fire-damaged original.
Scan the fire-damaged wartime 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 wartime 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 uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting, 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 wartime photos from the 1910s to 1940s
- Small faces of a soldier at camp, a sweetheart back home or a family in a bombed street that the fire damage has taken the detail from
- Fire-damaged wartime 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 uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting in the wartime photo untouched.
Photo Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the wartime photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on wartime photos, tiny contact prints, censor marks, folds from being mailed in a letter and fading from a mantelpiece, once the fire damage is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Upscale the wartime photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the fire damage repair, with the shape of the fire-damaged wartime photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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