Childhood Photos
Low-Resolution Childhood Photos
When low resolution reaches a childhood photo, the result is blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged. The cause is nearly always a tiny contact print, a wallet photo, a heavy crop or a scan made at 72 dpi years ago, and childhood photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.
The restoration reads the low-resolution childhood photo as a repair job: it removes the low resolution and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the toys, the clothing and the expression as photographed. Faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that were lost to the low resolution are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.
For low-resolution childhood photos the order is low resolution first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a childhood photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a low-resolution print more detail for reprinting.
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
- Low resolution from a tiny contact print, a wallet photo, a heavy crop or a scan made at 72 dpi years ago, on childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that the low resolution has taken the detail from
- Low-resolution childhood photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A low-resolution childhood photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the low resolution is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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