AI Photo Restoration

Sun-Bleached Wedding Photos

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

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for sun-bleached wedding 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 wedding photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet end up where they always were in the sun-bleached original.

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

Sun-Bleached Wedding Photos, the original print
Sun-Bleached Wedding 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 wedding photos from the 1920s to 1990s
  • Small faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents that the sun bleaching has taken the detail from
  • Sun-bleached wedding photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A sun-bleached wedding 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 lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet in the wedding photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the wedding photo

    Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on wedding photos, creases from years in a wallet, silvering along the edge of the veil and a magenta shift in 1970s color prints, once the sun bleaching is gone.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the wedding photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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