Funeral and Memorial Photos
Low-Resolution Funeral and Memorial Photos
A low-resolution memorial photo is a common case: a tiny contact print, a wallet photo, a heavy crop or a scan made at 72 dpi years ago leaves blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged, and funeral and memorial photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Face Restoration is the tool for low-resolution funeral and memorial photos: it targets blocky pixels, mushy skin and faces the size of a fingernail that fall apart when enlarged and leaves the rest of the memorial photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the face, the expression and the way they held themselves end up where they always were in the low-resolution original.
Scan the low-resolution memorial photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the low resolution is the only thing left to repair. The funeral and memorial photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the low resolution.
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
- The face, the expression and the way they held themselves, 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 funeral and memorial photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them that the low resolution has taken the detail from
- Low-resolution funeral and memorial photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 face, the expression and the way they held themselves in the memorial photo untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the memorial photo
Memorial Portrait addresses the usual wear on funeral and memorial photos, a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge, once the low resolution is gone.
Memorial Portrait - 03
Upscale the memorial photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution funeral and memorial photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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