Wartime Photos
Sun-Bleached Wartime Photos
Sun-bleached wartime photos usually come out of a frame on a sunny wall or a windowsill, where ultraviolet light broke the dyes down year after year. On a wartime photo the sun bleaching shows as a washed-out image with almost no contrast, sometimes with a darker stripe where the mat protected it, right across a soldier at camp, a sweetheart back home or a family in a bombed street.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the sun-bleached wartime photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting left as they were. Where the sun bleaching covered a face in wartime photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the sun bleaching on the wartime photo is worse than it looks, run Faded Photo Fixer twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the sun-bleached wartime photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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
- A washed-out image with almost no contrast, sometimes with a darker stripe where the mat protected it, spread over a wartime photo
- A sun-bleached wartime photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting, 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 wartime photos from the 1910s to 1940s
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 uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting in the wartime photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the wartime photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on wartime photos, tiny contact prints, censor marks, folds from being mailed in a letter and fading from a mantelpiece, once the sun bleaching is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Sharpen the faces of a soldier at camp, a sweetheart back home or a family in a bombed street
Recovers the eye and skin detail the sun bleaching softened; keep it at natural strength on wartime photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the wartime photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the sun bleaching repair, with the shape of the sun-bleached wartime photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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