AI Photo Restoration

Yellowed Anniversary Photos

A yellowed anniversary photo 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 anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for yellowed anniversary photos: it targets whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image and leaves the rest of the anniversary photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the banner and the couple's faces end up where they always were in the yellowed original.

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

Yellowed Anniversary Photos, the original print
Yellowed Anniversary Photos
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

  • Yellowing from acidic paper and album pages, cigarette smoke and the slow chemistry of fixer left in the print, on anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s
  • Small faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children that the yellowing has taken the detail from
  • Yellowed anniversary photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A yellowed anniversary photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint

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 cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Run a full pass on the anniversary photo

    Picks up the remaining scratches, fading and softness on yellowed anniversary photos after the yellowing is removed.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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