Wedding Photos
Stained Wedding Photos
Wedding 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 couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the wedding photo is redrawn for effect; the staining is treated as a layer to remove and the image of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents as the thing to keep. If the stained area covered the lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Stain & Spot Remover on the stained wedding photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the wedding photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on stained wedding 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
- Stained wedding photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A stained wedding photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky, spread over a wedding photo
- A stained wedding photo that is the only copy anyone has
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 lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet in the wedding photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the wedding photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on wedding photos, creases from years in a wallet, silvering along the edge of the veil and a magenta shift in 1970s color prints, once the staining is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents
Recovers the eye and skin detail the staining softened; keep it at natural strength on wedding photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the wedding photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained wedding photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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