Anniversary Photos
Stained Anniversary Photos
Anniversary photos showing brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky have almost always met coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day. The staining sits on top of the image of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the anniversary photo is redrawn for effect; the staining is treated as a layer to remove and the image of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children as the thing to keep. If the stained area covered the cake, the banner and the couple's faces, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Stain & Spot Remover on the stained anniversary photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the anniversary photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on stained anniversary photos.
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
- Stained anniversary photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A stained anniversary photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky, spread over a anniversary photo
- A stained anniversary photo that is the only copy anyone has
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the staining
Stain & Spot Remover targets brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky while keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the anniversary photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on anniversary photos, an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light, once the staining is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children
Recovers the eye and skin detail the staining softened; keep it at natural strength on anniversary photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained anniversary photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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