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Restore old workplace photos
Workplace photos are usually the photographs a family would run back into the house for: a crew lined up in front of the factory, shop, mine or office, printed anywhere from the 1890s to 1970s. The workplace photos that survive tend to show soot and dust in the grain, a print that spent years on a break-room wall and a yellow stripe of sun.
Upload the workplace photo as a scan or a phone photo, and the restoration comes back in seconds with the signage, the tools and the company name kept as they were in the original. Faces in workplace photos that were badly blurred are plausible reconstructions, so compare them against other pictures of the same people.
Standard is enough for a workplace 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 workplace 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
- The signage, the tools and the company name, which must stay as photographed while the damage is repaired
- One surviving workplace photo that every relative wants a clean copy of
- Workplace photos scanned years ago at low resolution and never reprinted
- Soot and dust in the grain, a print that spent years on a break-room wall and a yellow stripe of sun
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Run Stain & Spot Remover on the workplace photo
The first pass for workplace photos: it takes on soot and dust in the grain, a print that spent years on a break-room wall and a yellow stripe of sun while keeping the signage, the tools and the company name as photographed.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair what the first pass left on the workplace photo
Photo Restoration picks up the remaining marks on workplace photos without touching the tone or grain elsewhere.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of a crew lined up in front of the factory, shop, mine or office
Recovers eye and skin detail in workplace photos; keep it at natural strength unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the workplace photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a framed print or enlargement of workplace photos needs, with the shape of the upload unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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