Birthday Photos
Low-Resolution Birthday Photos
Low-resolution birthday 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 birthday 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 child leaning over a cake with the candles lit.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the low-resolution birthday photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the cake, the candles and the party hats left as they were. Where the low resolution covered a face in birthday photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the low resolution on the birthday photo is worse than it looks, run Face Restoration twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the low-resolution birthday 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
- Blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged, spread over a birthday photo
- A low-resolution birthday photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The cake, the candles and the party hats, hidden under the low resolution
- Low resolution from a tiny contact print, a wallet photo, a heavy crop or a scan made at 72 dpi years ago, on birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s
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 cake, the candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the birthday photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the low resolution is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit
Recovers the eye and skin detail the low resolution softened; keep it at natural strength on birthday photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution birthday photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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