Birthday Photos
Moldy Birthday Photos
Moldy birthday photos usually come out of years in a humid attic, a cardboard box on a concrete floor or a plastic sleeve that trapped moisture. On a birthday photo the mold shows as fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print, right across a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the moldy birthday photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the cake, the candles and the party hats left as they were. Where the mold covered a face in birthday photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the mold on the birthday photo is worse than it looks, run Stain & Spot Remover twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the moldy birthday photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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
- Mold from years in a humid attic, a cardboard box on a concrete floor or a plastic sleeve that trapped moisture, on birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit that the mold has taken the detail from
- Moldy birthday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A moldy birthday photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the mold
Stain & Spot Remover targets fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print while keeping the cake, the candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the birthday photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the mold is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit
Recovers the eye and skin detail the mold softened; keep it at natural strength on birthday photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the mold repair, with the shape of the moldy birthday photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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