AI Photo Restoration

Yellowed Ancestor Portraits

A yellowed ancestor portrait is a common case: acidic paper and album pages, cigarette smoke and the slow chemistry of fixer left in the print leaves whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image, and ancestor portraits from the 1850s to 1910s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for yellowed ancestor portraits: it targets whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image and leaves the rest of the ancestor portrait alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the features, the period clothing and the studio props end up where they always were in the yellowed original.

Scan the yellowed ancestor portrait flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the yellowing is the only thing left to repair. The ancestor portraits come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the yellowing.

Yellowed Ancestor Portraits, the original print
Yellowed Ancestor Portraits
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

  • Yellowed ancestor portraits that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A yellowed ancestor portrait needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
  • Whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image, spread over a ancestor portrait
  • A yellowed ancestor portrait that is the only copy anyone has

Suggested order of passes

  1. 01

    Remove the yellowing

    Faded Photo Fixer targets whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image while keeping the features, the period clothing and the studio props in the ancestor portrait untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the ancestor portrait

    Tintype & Daguerreotype Restoration addresses the usual wear on ancestor portraits, silver mirroring, a tarnished tintype surface and cabinet-card mounts that have gone brittle, once the yellowing is gone.

    Tintype & Daguerreotype Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the ancestor portrait for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the yellowing repair, with the shape of the yellowed ancestor portraits unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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