AI Photo Restoration

Sun-Bleached Graduation Photos

A sun-bleached graduation 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 graduation photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for sun-bleached graduation 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 graduation photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the tassel, the diploma and the school crest end up where they always were in the sun-bleached original.

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

Sun-Bleached Graduation Photos, the original print
Sun-Bleached Graduation 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

  • Small faces of the graduate in cap and gown, often with a parent standing just behind that the sun bleaching has taken the detail from
  • Sun-bleached graduation photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A sun-bleached graduation 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 graduation photo

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 tassel, the diploma and the school crest in the graduation photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Run a full pass on the graduation photo

    Picks up the remaining scratches, fading and softness on sun-bleached graduation photos after the sun bleaching is removed.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the graduation photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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