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Restore old prom photos
Prom photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: a couple posed under an arch or against a painted backdrop, printed anywhere from the 1950s to 1990s. The prom photos that survive tend to show a cardboard folder stuck to the print, red-eye from the flash and a heavy magenta shift.
Upload the prom photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the corsage, the dress color and the backdrop kept as they were in the original. Faces in prom photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a prom photo headed for a screen; Pro and Max recover more detail for a print that will hang on a wall. Whichever tier you choose, run prom photos through the upscaler last so the reprint stays sharp.
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, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving prom photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
- Prom photos scanned years ago at low resolution and never reprinted
- A cardboard folder stuck to the print, red-eye from the flash and a heavy magenta shift
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Red-Eye Removal on the prom photo
The first pass for prom photos: it takes on a cardboard folder stuck to the print, red-eye from the flash and a heavy magenta shift while keeping the corsage, the dress color and the backdrop as photographed.
Red-Eye Removal - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the prom photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on prom photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a couple posed under an arch or against a painted backdrop
Recovers eye and skin detail in prom photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the prom photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of prom photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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