Low-Resolution House Photos

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

The restoration reads the low-resolution house photo as a repair job: it removes the low resolution and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the porch details, the windows and the house number as photographed. Faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard that were lost to the low resolution are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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