AI Photo Restoration

Yellowed House Photos

A yellowed house 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Faded Photo Fixer is the tool for yellowed house photos: it targets whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image and leaves the rest of the house photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the porch details, the windows and the house number end up where they always were in the yellowed original.

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

Yellowed House Photos, the original print
Yellowed House 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

  • A yellowed house 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 house photo
  • A yellowed house photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The porch details, the windows and the house number, hidden under the yellowing

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 porch details, the windows and the house number in the house photo untouched.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the house photo

    Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on house photos, mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white, once the yellowing is gone.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  3. 03

    Upscale the house photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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