Childhood Photos
Sun-Bleached Childhood Photos
A sun-bleached childhood 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 childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for sun-bleached childhood 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 childhood photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the toys, the clothing and the expression end up where they always were in the sun-bleached original.
Scan the sun-bleached childhood 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 childhood 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
- Small faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that the sun bleaching has taken the detail from
- Sun-bleached childhood photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A sun-bleached childhood photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- A washed-out image with almost no contrast, sometimes with a darker stripe where the mat protected it, spread over a childhood photo
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the sun bleaching is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the sun bleaching repair, with the shape of the sun-bleached childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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