Grandparents Photos
Stained Grandparents Photos
A stained grandparent photo is a common case: coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day leaves brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky, and grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for stained grandparents photos: it targets brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky and leaves the rest of the grandparent photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the expression, the glasses and the hands end up where they always were in the stained original.
Scan the stained grandparent photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the staining is the only thing left to repair. The grandparents photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the staining.
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
- A stained grandparent photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The expression, the glasses and the hands, hidden under the staining
- Staining from coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day, on grandparents photos from the 1910s to 1970s
- Small faces of a grandmother or grandfather, sometimes together, in the only portrait ever taken of them that the staining has taken the detail from
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 expression, the glasses and the hands in the grandparent photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the grandparent photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on grandparents photos, the one surviving print handled by every relative, fingerprinted, softly creased and worn at the edges, once the staining is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Upscale the grandparent photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained grandparents photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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