Part I: Professional Photo Restoration for Everyone
Part II: Wondershare Repairit: Ultimate DIY Photo Restoration Software
Part III: Photo Restoration Tips
Closing Words
So, you have finally made time to sort through your family photo albums and have picked out those that you would like to have retouched and restored to their former glory. Only problem is, you do not know how to do it. You search the internet, and you come across several tools, file repair tool, pdf repair tool, jpeg repair tool, so on. You are confused and are almost about to throw in the towel once again. How about we surprise you today with a bold claim? You can repair, restore, and retouch your old family photos yourself! Curious? Read on!
Part I: Professional Photo Restoration for Everyone
Yes, you read that right! You can repair, retouch, and restore old photos all by yourself!
With modern technology and a little help from a team of passionate designers who love making complex technology simple and easy to use for everyone, it is now possible to repair, restore, retouch and recolor old family photos with an unprecedented level of accuracy and precision. What you need is a photo restoration software, and here is what you need to know about photo restoration software.
I.I: What Does a Photo Restoration Software Do?
Clever marketing has ensured that whenever people think about photo software, the first name they think about is Photoshop, but that is where they go wrong. Photoshop is a photo editing software, and we require a dedicated photo restoration software to accurately and precisely recolor and repair photos, bringing out lost details and color.
Photo Restoration Software Recolors Faded Photos
Old photos usually look old because of faded colors, that can happen for a variety and combination of reasons, including ink quality, ink life, paper quality and life, etc. A photo restoration software automatically recolors faded photos to how they were.
Photo Restoration Software Brings Back Lost Details
Scratches, creases, folds, ink fade…. there are so many reasons why photos lose details. A photo restoration software accurately and precisely restores lost details in photos to the best it can, giving photos a new lease of life.
Part II: Wondershare Repairit: Ultimate DIY Photo Restoration Software
Meet Wondershare Repairit – the only photo restoration software you will use once you start using it. The experts at Wondershare have now harnessed the power of generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) to make Repairit even more powerful than before, and it can now recolor photos and restore lost details more accurately and precisely than ever before, far exceeding any other software.
Repairit features comes with several other repair modes such as Photo Repair, Video Repair, and File Repair optimized for those specific needs.
To restore details, recolor and retouch photos, Repairit has a mode called Old Photo Restoration and Colorizer.
Wondershare Repairit:
– is easy to use and no prior knowledge is required to recolor and restore old photos.
– repairs any file in any format.
– has dedicated modes specific to type of repair.
– can repair corrupt photos.
– can enlarge low-resolution images.
– is platform independent and can run on Mac, Windows PC and inside web browsers.
Follow these steps to bring old photos to life again!
Step 1: Select More Types Repair and click Old Photo Restoration & Colorizer.
Step 2: Add photos.
Clicking the Add button if you want to add using a file browser, else simply drag-and-drop.
Step 3: Click Process.
CHOOSE THE PROCESS MODE
There are 3 modes to choose from:
1. Restore and Colorize,
2. Restore only,
3. Colorize only.
Repairit uses mode 1 as default.
Real-time processing status is visible across each added file.
FILE PREVIEWER FUNCTIONALITY
File previewing capability is available for users to quickly see the before-after results.
Step 4: Click Save (Save All under Previewer) and choose the export destination.
Click Save All and click OK.
Part III: Photo Restoration Tips
It is true that Wondershare Repairit makes photo restoration so easy that you’d think there is nothing more to it. After all, you just add photos, and the software does the rest! You don’t have to lift a finger! But that is after you add photos. Photo restoration is only going to be effective if the input file is any good. To that effect, there are steps you can take to ensure that Wondershare Repairit has the best input material to work its magic on!
Tip 1: Use A Flatbed Scanner (Preferred!)
Even though today we make do with our phone cameras, there is a reason office environments and professionals still use a flatbed scanner. A flatbed scanner is designed to scan the best way possible with minimal light pollution, zero skewing, etc. Scanning old photos using a flatbed scanner is the best way to digitize old photos for photo restoration and keepsake.
Also, when at it, use the highest DPI setting you can use to scan at. It will be helpful during photo restoration.
Tip 2: When Using A Phone/ DSLR Camera
Sure, you can use a phone camera or your DSLR camera to take photos. But, this way, you have to be extra careful to minimize potential issues that a flatbed scanner would have eliminated. These issues are light pollution causing reflections and data loss in the photos, and photos getting skewed due to being taken at an angle not perpendicular to the plane of the photo.
– Make sure your camera is parallel to the plane of the photo being digitized. A tripod can help.
– Flatbed scanners have a light source of their own. In case you are using a phone camera or DSLR, you need to ensure ample light while avoiding any direct sunlight falling on the photos. Flash is not recommended, either, as that will cause complete loss of details.
On smartphones, apps such as Microsoft Lens can somewhat help in straightening out images after you take them.
Closing Words
Old family photos are invaluable memories cherished across generations. These must be preserved at all costs, and, fortunately, doing just that is now more affordable than ever. Not only that, but old photo restoration is also no longer an exclusive domain of professionals. You can restore lost details and retouch and recolor your old family photos easily from the comfort of your home, and you do not even need any specialized hardware. All you need is one intuitive, easy to use, powerful photo restoration software that you can use to restore old photos in just a few clicks – Wondershare Repairit. Download the app now and bring your old family photos to life once again!
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