Funeral and Memorial Photos
Stained Funeral and Memorial Photos
Funeral and memorial 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 the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the memorial photo is redrawn for effect; the staining is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them as the thing to keep. If the stained area covered the face, the expression and the way they held themselves, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Stain & Spot Remover on the stained memorial photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the funeral and memorial photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on stained funeral and memorial 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 funeral and memorial photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them that the staining has taken the detail from
- Stained funeral and memorial photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A stained memorial 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 the face, the expression and the way they held themselves in the memorial photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the memorial photo
Memorial Portrait addresses the usual wear on funeral and memorial photos, a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge, once the staining is gone.
Memorial Portrait - 03
Sharpen the faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them
Recovers the eye and skin detail the staining softened; keep it at natural strength on funeral and memorial photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the memorial photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained funeral and memorial photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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