AI Photo Restoration

Sun-Bleached Farm Photos

A sun-bleached farm 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 farm photos from the 1890s to 1960s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for sun-bleached farm 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 farm photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the barn, the equipment and the animals end up where they always were in the sun-bleached original.

Scan the sun-bleached farm 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 farm photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the sun bleaching.

Sun-Bleached Farm Photos, the original print
Sun-Bleached Farm Photos
OriginalRestored

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

  • Sun bleaching from a frame on a sunny wall or a windowsill, where ultraviolet light broke the dyes down year after year, on farm photos from the 1890s to 1960s
  • Small faces of the family in front of the barn, with horses, a tractor or a loaded wagon that the sun bleaching has taken the detail from
  • Sun-bleached farm photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A sun-bleached farm photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 barn, the equipment and the animals in the farm photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the farm photo

    Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on farm photos, prints pinned up in a barn office, dusty, fly-specked, sun-faded and cracked along one edge, once the sun bleaching is gone.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  3. 03

    Upscale the farm photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the sun bleaching repair, with the shape of the sun-bleached farm photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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