Low-Resolution Farm Photos

When low resolution reaches a farm 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 farm photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the low-resolution farm photo as a repair job: it removes the low resolution and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the barn, the equipment and the animals as photographed. Faces of the family in front of the barn, with horses, a tractor or a loaded wagon that were lost to the low resolution are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For low-resolution farm photos the order is low resolution first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a farm photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a low-resolution print more detail for reprinting.