How to restore faded photos?

[Stephen Liu]

(06-21-2022, 08:30 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Dear Stephen. I hope you realise that some photographs are not recoverable even by AI. Treasure them as they are.

I once had a girlfriend who took the worst photographs imaginable. Top of heads cut off, people leaning at 30⁰, over-exposed, under-exposed. It did not matter she said. "It is the memory they bring back"

This one is more "artistic" than anything else. You could spend a long time on it for very little benefit.

Hi rich,

Thanks for your help.  Could you please inform me how to get your result in brief?

Yes, it is true.  I can spend hours and hours on faded photos. I suppose the best solution for me is to scan their film negatives but still I have to spend time searching on >1,000 negatives.  I'll put all faded negatives on one side first.

Fortunately the scanning method using a smartphone saves me a lot of time.

Regards