Band Photos
Yellowed Band Photos
Band photos showing whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image have almost always met acidic paper and album pages, cigarette smoke and the slow chemistry of fixer left in the print. The yellowing sits on top of the image of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the band photo is redrawn for effect; the yellowing is treated as a layer to remove and the image of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments as the thing to keep. If the yellowed area covered the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Faded Photo Fixer on the yellowed band photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the band photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on yellowed band photos.
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
- A yellowed band photo 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 band photo
- A yellowed band photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head, hidden under the yellowing
Suggested order of passes
- 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 instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head in the band photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the band photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on band photos, flash bounce off the brass, a stage that went black and a photocopy standing in for the lost print, once the yellowing is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments
Recovers the eye and skin detail the yellowing softened; keep it at natural strength on band photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the band photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the yellowing repair, with the shape of the yellowed band photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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