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Restore old graduation photos
Graduation photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: the graduate in cap and gown, often with a parent standing just behind, printed anywhere from the 1920s to 1990s. The graduation photos that survive tend to show flash glare on the gown, a curled cardboard mount and the green shift of 1980s color paper.
Upload the graduation photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the tassel, the diploma and the school crest kept as they were in the original. Faces in graduation photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a graduation 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 graduation 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 tassel, the diploma and the school crest, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving graduation photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
- Graduation photos scanned years ago at low resolution and never reprinted
- Flash glare on the gown, a curled cardboard mount and the green shift of 1980s color paper
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Faded Photo Fixer on the graduation photo
The first pass for graduation photos: it takes on flash glare on the gown, a curled cardboard mount and the green shift of 1980s color paper while keeping the tassel, the diploma and the school crest as photographed.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the graduation photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on graduation photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of the graduate in cap and gown, often with a parent standing just behind
Recovers eye and skin detail in graduation photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the graduation photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of graduation photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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