Birthday Photos
Water-Damaged Birthday Photos
Water-damaged birthday photos usually come out of a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage. On a birthday photo the water damage shows as brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve, right across a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the water-damaged birthday photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the cake, the candles and the party hats left as they were. Where the water damage covered a face in birthday photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the water damage on the birthday photo is worse than it looks, run Stain & Spot Remover twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the water-damaged birthday 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
- The cake, the candles and the party hats, hidden under the water damage
- Water damage from a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage, on birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit that the water damage has taken the detail from
- Water-damaged birthday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the water damage
Stain & Spot Remover targets brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve while keeping the cake, the candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the birthday photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the water damage is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit
Recovers the eye and skin detail the water damage softened; keep it at natural strength on birthday photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the water damage repair, with the shape of the water-damaged birthday photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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