Prom Photos
Low-Resolution Prom Photos
A low-resolution prom 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 prom photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Face Restoration is the tool for low-resolution prom 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 prom photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the corsage, the dress color and the backdrop end up where they always were in the low-resolution original.
Scan the low-resolution prom 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 prom 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 corsage, the dress color and the backdrop, 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 prom photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a couple posed under an arch or against a painted backdrop that the low resolution has taken the detail from
- Low-resolution prom 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 corsage, the dress color and the backdrop in the prom photo untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the prom photo
Red-Eye Removal addresses the usual wear on prom photos, a cardboard folder stuck to the print, red-eye from the flash and a heavy magenta shift, once the low resolution is gone.
Red-Eye Removal - 03
Upscale the prom photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution prom photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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