Band Photos
Low-Resolution Band Photos
Low-resolution band photos usually come out of a tiny contact print, a wallet photo, a heavy crop or a scan made at 72 dpi years ago. On a band photo the low resolution shows as blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged, right across a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the low-resolution band photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head left as they were. Where the low resolution covered a face in band photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the low resolution on the band photo is worse than it looks, run Face Restoration twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the low-resolution band photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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
- Small faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments that the low resolution has taken the detail from
- Low-resolution band photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A low-resolution band photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged, spread over a band photo
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the low resolution
Face Restoration targets blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged while keeping the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head in the band photo untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the band photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on band photos, flash bounce off the brass, a stage that went black and a photocopy standing in for the lost print, once the low resolution is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments
Recovers the eye and skin detail the low resolution softened; keep it at natural strength on band photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the band photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution band photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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