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Restore old funeral and memorial photos
Funeral and memorial photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them, printed anywhere from the 1920s to 1990s. The funeral and memorial photos that survive tend to show a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge.
Upload the memorial photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the face, the expression and the way they held themselves kept as they were in the original. Faces in funeral and memorial photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a memorial photo headed for a screen; Pro and Max recover more detail for a print that will hang on a wall. Whichever tier you choose, run funeral and memorial photos through the upscaler last so the reprint stays sharp.
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 face, the expression and the way they held themselves, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving memorial photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
- Funeral and memorial photos scanned years ago at low resolution and never reprinted
- A snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Memorial Portrait on the memorial photo
The first pass for funeral and memorial photos: it takes on a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge while keeping the face, the expression and the way they held themselves as photographed.
Memorial Portrait - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the memorial photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on funeral and memorial photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them
Recovers eye and skin detail in funeral and memorial photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the memorial photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of funeral and memorial photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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