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Restore old grandparents photos
Grandparents photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: a grandmother or grandfather, sometimes together, in the only portrait ever taken of them, printed anywhere from the 1910s to 1970s. The grandparents photos that survive tend to show the one surviving print handled by every relative, fingerprinted, softly creased and worn at the edges.
Upload the grandparent photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the expression, the glasses and the hands kept as they were in the original. Faces in grandparents photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a grandparent 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 grandparents 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 one surviving print handled by every relative, fingerprinted, softly creased and worn at the edges
- Small faces of a grandmother or grandfather, sometimes together, in the only portrait ever taken of them, which fall apart when enlarged
- Color casts on grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s that hide the real skin tones
- The expression, the glasses and the hands, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Face Restoration on the grandparent photo
The first pass for grandparents photos: it takes on the one surviving print handled by every relative, fingerprinted, softly creased and worn at the edges while keeping the expression, the glasses and the hands as photographed.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the grandparent photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on grandparents photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a grandmother or grandfather, sometimes together, in the only portrait ever taken of them
Recovers eye and skin detail in grandparents photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the grandparent photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of grandparents photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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