Immigration Photos
Stained Immigration Photos
Stained immigration photos usually come out of coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day. On a immigration photo the staining shows as brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky, right across a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the stained immigration photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back left as they were. Where the staining covered a face in immigration photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the staining on the immigration photo is worse than it looks, run Stain & Spot Remover twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the stained immigration photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back, hidden under the staining
- Staining from coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day, on immigration photos from the 1890s to 1950s
- Small faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country that the staining has taken the detail from
- Stained immigration 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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back in the immigration photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the immigration photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on immigration photos, prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold, once the staining is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Sharpen the faces of a family at the dock, at a ship rail or in the doorway of a first home in a new country
Recovers the eye and skin detail the staining softened; keep it at natural strength on immigration photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the immigration photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained immigration photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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