Class Photos
Stained Class Photos
Class 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 thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the class photo is redrawn for effect; the staining is treated as a layer to remove and the image of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side as the thing to keep. If the stained area covered each child's face, the name board and the teacher, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Stain & Spot Remover on the stained class photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the class photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on stained class 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
- Staining from coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day, on class photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side that the staining has taken the detail from
- Stained class photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A stained class photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 each child's face, the name board and the teacher in the class photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the class photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on class photos, a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends, once the staining is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side
Recovers the eye and skin detail the staining softened; keep it at natural strength on class photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the class photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained class photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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