Funeral and Memorial Photos
Water-Damaged Funeral and Memorial Photos
A water-damaged memorial photo is a common case: a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage leaves brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve, and funeral and memorial photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for water-damaged funeral and memorial photos: it targets brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve and leaves the rest of the memorial photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the face, the expression and the way they held themselves end up where they always were in the water-damaged original.
Scan the water-damaged memorial photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the water damage is the only thing left to repair. The funeral and memorial photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the water damage.
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 face, the expression and the way they held themselves, hidden under the water damage
- Water damage from a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage, on funeral and memorial photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them that the water damage has taken the detail from
- Water-damaged funeral and memorial 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 face, the expression and the way they held themselves in the memorial photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the memorial photo
Memorial Portrait addresses the usual wear on funeral and memorial photos, a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge, once the water damage is gone.
Memorial Portrait - 03
Upscale the memorial photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the water damage repair, with the shape of the water-damaged funeral and memorial photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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