Wartime Photos
Yellowed Wartime Photos
Yellowed wartime photos usually come out of acidic paper and album pages, cigarette smoke and the slow chemistry of fixer left in the print. On a wartime photo the yellowing shows as whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image, right across a soldier at camp, a sweetheart back home or a family in a bombed street.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the yellowed wartime photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting left as they were. Where the yellowing covered a face in wartime photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the yellowing on the wartime photo is worse than it looks, run Faded Photo Fixer twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the yellowed wartime photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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
- Whites turned cream or brown and a warm cast lying over the whole image, spread over a wartime photo
- A yellowed wartime photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting, hidden under the yellowing
- Yellowing from acidic paper and album pages, cigarette smoke and the slow chemistry of fixer left in the print, on wartime photos from the 1910s to 1940s
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 uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting in the wartime photo untouched.
Faded Photo Fixer - 02
Repair the rest of the wartime photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on wartime photos, tiny contact prints, censor marks, folds from being mailed in a letter and fading from a mantelpiece, once the yellowing is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Sharpen the faces of a soldier at camp, a sweetheart back home or a family in a bombed street
Recovers the eye and skin detail the yellowing softened; keep it at natural strength on wartime photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the wartime photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the yellowing repair, with the shape of the yellowed wartime photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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