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Prints & Albums · For individuals

It has to still look like the person you remember

Restore photographic prints, album pages and slides - with faces recovered against the original rather than beautified into someone else.

No card required Free to start Original always kept

Photograph on a printed page

fidelity checked
A newspaper clipping, creased and yellowed, its halftone portrait broken up by the damageoriginal
The same clipping restored, the halftone portrait and column text legible againrestored
0%

Face matchesthe original

Weighted to fidelity rather than flattery, then compared against the original face before delivery.

Built for prints & albums

FFamily albumsWWedding photographsSStudio portraitsSSlide collectionsSSchool photographsSService portraitsHHoliday printsAAlbum pagesFFamily albumsWWedding photographsSStudio portraitsSSlide collectionsSSchool photographsSService portraitsHHoliday printsAAlbum pages

What this usually looks like before us

Most restorers will happily hand back a sharper, younger, smoother face - and it is not quite your grandmother any more. Faces are weighted to fidelity rather than flattery and checked against the original afterwards, so what comes back is the print you had, repaired.

Today
Cracked and creased prints from decades in a box
Album pages where only the uncovered area faded
Faces too soft or too damaged to make out
Colour prints drifted to magenta or orange
With Docovly
Faces kept as faces
Surface damage only
Colour that drifted, corrected
Big enough to frame
How it works

Four steps, and it asks you almost nothing

The console looks at the page, says what it found and what it proposes, and does it. You never have to learn the filing system to get the benefit of it.

Step 1

Add

Photograph the print or the album page as it lies - do not peel anything off.

Step 2

Look

The capture is squared and lit evenly before any restoration runs.

Step 3

Restore

Surface damage is cleared without touching the picture underneath.

Step 4

Finish

The restored face is compared against the original before it is delivered.

How the work is different afterwards

Survey, treatment and verification - the same three things the console shows you on every single page.

Faces kept as faces

Portrait recovery is weighted to fidelity rather than flattery, and the restored face is compared against the original before it is delivered.

What is wrong with itMeasured
Crack running through the subject's facehigh
Colour drifted toward magentamedium
Dust and surface scratcheslow

Surface damage only

Dust, scratches and cracks are cleared from the surface of the print without touching the picture underneath.

What will be done
1Remove dust and scratches
2Recover a face
3Increase resolution

Colour that drifted, corrected

Colour casts are handled per channel, because dyes fade at different rates - which is why old prints go magenta rather than simply pale.

Before delivery
Original keptv1
Held regions composited
Reading back…
Fidelity, not flattery

It has to still be her

Most restorers hand back a face that is sharper, younger and smoother - and no longer quite the person. Face recovery here is weighted to fidelity and the result is checked against the original face before it is delivered.

  • Faces recovered against the original, never beautified
  • Dust and scratches cleared from the surface only
  • Colour casts corrected per channel as dyes faded
  • Torn areas across a face reported, never invented
  • Resolution raised from captured detail for framing

Studio portrait, 1958

Version history · every step revertible

Ready
Original capturev1 · untouched
Treatments applied3 steps
Held regionscomposited back
Fields exportedCSV + withheld
Face matches the original0%

checkedagainst the original face

I have seen what other tools do to a face. This one gave me back my mother, not a stranger who resembles her.

RA

Restored a 1958 wedding photograph

Who this is for

Prints & Albums covers a few different jobs. These are the ones people arrive with.

Anyone with a shoebox

Start with the one photograph you would be upset to lose.

Family archivists

A whole album as one batch, filed rather than dumped in a folder.

Memorial and tribute work

A print worth framing, from the only copy that survived.

Start with one difficult document.

Free to start, no card. Bring the sheet your current process cannot handle and judge prints & albums on that.

Questions

Prints & Albums, answered

What this audience asks before committing anything to a restoration pipeline.

Have a document you are not sure about?

Send us a photograph of it. We will tell you honestly whether it is recoverable before you spend anything.

Ask us

It is specifically built not to. Face recovery is weighted to fidelity rather than flattery, and the result is checked against the original face - a restoration that quietly improves someone's features is not a restoration of them.

For individuals

Faces recovered, not redrawn.

Restore photographic prints, album pages and slides - with faces recovered against the original rather than beautified into someone else.

Free to start · no card · the original is always kept