School Photos
Low-Resolution School Photos
A low-resolution school portrait 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 school photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Face Restoration is the tool for low-resolution school 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 school portrait alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile end up where they always were in the low-resolution original.
Scan the low-resolution school portrait flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the low resolution is the only thing left to repair. The school 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 backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile, 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 school photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn that the low resolution has taken the detail from
- Low-resolution school 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 backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile in the school portrait untouched.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair the rest of the school portrait
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on school photos, wallet-size prints traded between friends, creased, stuck to album pages and faded to orange, once the low resolution is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Upscale the school portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the low resolution repair, with the shape of the low-resolution school photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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