Baby Photos
Sun-Bleached Baby Photos
A sun-bleached baby photo is a common case: a frame on a sunny wall or a windowsill, where ultraviolet light broke the dyes down year after year leaves a washed-out image with almost no contrast, sometimes with a darker stripe where the mat protected it, and baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for sun-bleached baby photos: it targets a washed-out image with almost no contrast, sometimes with a darker stripe where the mat protected it and leaves the rest of the baby photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern end up where they always were in the sun-bleached original.
Scan the sun-bleached baby photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the sun bleaching is the only thing left to repair. The baby photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the sun bleaching.
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 christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern, hidden under the sun bleaching
- Sun bleaching from a frame on a sunny wall or a windowsill, where ultraviolet light broke the dyes down year after year, on baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s
- Small faces of a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up that the sun bleaching has taken the detail from
- Sun-bleached baby photos that a copy shop refused to touch
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the sun bleaching
Faded Photo Fixer targets a washed-out image with almost no contrast, sometimes with a darker stripe where the mat protected it while keeping the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern in the baby photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the baby photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on baby photos, soft focus from a slow lens, thumbprints on the emulsion and whites gone warm and yellow, once the sun bleaching is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Upscale the baby photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the sun bleaching repair, with the shape of the sun-bleached baby photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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