AI Photo Restoration

Sun-Bleached House Photos

A sun-bleached house 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for sun-bleached house 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 house photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the porch details, the windows and the house number end up where they always were in the sun-bleached original.

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

Sun-Bleached House Photos, the original print
Sun-Bleached House 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 family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard that the sun bleaching has taken the detail from
  • Sun-bleached house photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A sun-bleached house 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 house 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 porch details, the windows and the house number in the house photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the house photo

    Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on house photos, mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white, once the sun bleaching is gone.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  3. 03

    Upscale the house photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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