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Restore old sports team photos
Sports team photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front, printed anywhere from the 1900s to 1990s. The sports team photos that survive tend to show tiny faces in a wide frame, a crease through the back row and jersey colors faded to pastel.
Upload the team photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner kept as they were in the original. Faces in sports team photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a team 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 sports team 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
- Tiny faces in a wide frame, a crease through the back row and jersey colors faded to pastel
- Small faces of two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front, which fall apart when enlarged
- Color casts on sports team photos from the 1900s to 1990s that hide the real skin tones
- The jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Face Restoration on the team photo
The first pass for sports team photos: it takes on tiny faces in a wide frame, a crease through the back row and jersey colors faded to pastel while keeping the jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner as photographed.
Face Restoration - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the team photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on sports team photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front
Recovers eye and skin detail in sports team photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the team photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of sports team photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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