Will the people in my school portrait still look like themselves?

The prompts instruct the restoration to keep every face, age and expression in a school portrait as photographed. Where a face in school photos was tiny or badly blurred the result is a plausible reconstruction, so check it against other photos and family memory before printing.

Can I colorize school photos?

Yes. Run the Photo Colorizer after the repair. Colors on a school portrait are inferred from the era and the materials, so if anyone remembers a dress or a car color, type it into the known-colors field.

What does restoring a school portrait cost?

One Standard run of any tool on school photos is covered by the 4 free credits a new account starts with. Pro and Max use more credits and return more detail on a school portrait; the pricing page has the current numbers.

Do I need a scanner for school photos?

No. A phone photo of the school portrait works; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop, straighten and remove glare, then restore the result.

Subjects

Restore old school photos

Most school photos exist as one print, sometimes two, showing one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn. Made from the 1940s to 1990s, school photos arrive here with wallet-size prints traded between friends, creased, stuck to album pages and faded to orange.

Every tool here treats school photos as a repair job rather than a re-creation: the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile stay as photographed and the output follows the shape of the upload. Where a school portrait is missing a corner, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.

Start with Faded Photo Fixer for a typical school portrait, then chain Scratch & Tear Repair, Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio as the print needs. A new account has 4 free credits, which covers one Standard restoration of school photos.

Open with these settings Faded Photo Fixer

Restore old school photos, the original print

OriginalRestored

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

Small faces of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn, which fall apart when enlarged
Color casts on school photos from the 1940s to 1990s that hide the real skin tones
The backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
One surviving school portrait that every relative wants a clean copy of

Suggested order of passes

01
Run Faded Photo Fixer on the school portrait
The first pass for school photos: it takes on wallet-size prints traded between friends, creased, stuck to album pages and faded to orange while keeping the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile as photographed.
Faded Photo Fixer
02
Repair what the first pass left on the school portrait
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on school photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration
03
Sharpen the faces of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn
Recovers eye and skin detail in school photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration
04
Upscale the school portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of school photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler