Family Portraits
Low-Resolution Family Portraits
Low-resolution family portraits 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 family portrait the low resolution shows as blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged, right across three or four generations posed in a studio or on the front steps.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the low-resolution family portrait and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with every face, the seating order and the clothing left as they were. Where the low resolution covered a face in family portraits, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the low resolution on the family portrait is worse than it looks, run Face Restoration twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the low-resolution family portraits 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 family portrait
- A low-resolution family portrait that is the only copy anyone has
- Every face, the seating order and the clothing, 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 family portraits from the 1880s 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 every face, the seating order and the clothing in the family portrait untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the family portrait
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on family portraits, a crack through the middle from a broken frame, silver mirroring in the shadows and a lost corner, once the low resolution is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of three or four generations posed in a studio or on the front steps
Recovers the eye and skin detail the low resolution softened; keep it at natural strength on family portraits unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the family portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution family portraits unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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