Childhood Photos
Yellowed Childhood Photos
A yellowed childhood 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 childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for yellowed childhood photos: it targets whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image and leaves the rest of the childhood photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the toys, the clothing and the expression end up where they always were in the yellowed original.
Scan the yellowed childhood photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the yellowing is the only thing left to repair. The childhood photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the yellowing.


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
- Small faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that the yellowing has taken the detail from
- Yellowed childhood photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A yellowed childhood 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 childhood photo
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the yellowing is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the yellowing repair, with the shape of the yellowed childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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