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Restore old immigration photos
Immigration photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country, printed anywhere from the 1890s to 1950s. The immigration photos that survive tend to show prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold.
Upload the immigration photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back kept as they were in the original. Faces in immigration photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a immigration 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 immigration 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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving immigration photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
- Immigration photos scanned years ago at low resolution and never reprinted
- Prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Scratch & Tear Repair on the immigration photo
The first pass for immigration photos: it takes on prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold while keeping the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back as photographed.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the immigration photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on immigration photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country
Recovers eye and skin detail in immigration photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the immigration photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of immigration photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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