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Restore old vacation photos
Vacation photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car, printed anywhere from the 1950s to 1990s. The vacation photos that survive tend to show sun-bleached skies, a cyan cast from a hot glovebox and scratches from loose storage in an envelope.
Upload the vacation photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the landmark, the car and the swimsuits kept as they were in the original. Faces in vacation photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a vacation photo headed for a screen; Pro and Max recover more detail for a print that will hang on a wall. Whichever tier you choose, run vacation photos through the upscaler last so the reprint stays sharp.
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-bleached skies, a cyan cast from a hot glovebox and scratches from loose storage in an envelope
- Small faces of parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car, which fall apart when enlarged
- Color casts on vacation photos from the 1950s to 1990s that hide the real skin tones
- The landmark, the car and the swimsuits, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Faded Photo Fixer on the vacation photo
The first pass for vacation photos: it takes on sun-bleached skies, a cyan cast from a hot glovebox and scratches from loose storage in an envelope while keeping the landmark, the car and the swimsuits as photographed.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the vacation photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on vacation photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car
Recovers eye and skin detail in vacation photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the vacation photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of vacation photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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