Low-Resolution Honeymoon Photos

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

The restoration reads the low-resolution honeymoon photo as a repair job: it removes the low resolution and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the hotel sign, the clothing and the view behind them as photographed. Faces of the couple in their first week away, at a hotel, a beach or a scenic overlook that were lost to the low resolution are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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