Childhood Photos
Stained Childhood Photos
Childhood 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 you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the childhood photo is redrawn for effect; the staining is treated as a layer to remove and the image of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike as the thing to keep. If the stained area covered the toys, the clothing and the expression, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Stain & Spot Remover on the stained childhood photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the childhood photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on stained childhood 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
- The toys, the clothing and the expression, hidden under the staining
- Staining from coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day, on childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that the staining has taken the detail from
- Stained childhood photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the staining is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike
Recovers the eye and skin detail the staining softened; keep it at natural strength on childhood photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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