Fix a specific kind of photo

Some photos fail in their own particular way. These pages cover what went wrong in each case and which tool to reach for.

Fixing blurry wedding photos

Reception shots are the classic case: dim rooms, moving people, and no chance of a retake.

Thirty faces at forty pixels each, none of them individually legible.

Instant film ages differently from ordinary prints, and it needs a different capture.

Compression, not blur. Which means the usual fix is the wrong one.

Moving performers, coloured stage light, and a phone holding the shutter open too long.

Usually the most looked-at photographs in a family, and usually the most damaged.

No true black anywhere in the frame, and a milky cast over everything.

A screenshot is pixel-perfect when taken, so blur means something happened afterwards.

Small source file, then a platform that crops and recompresses whatever you give it.

Fur is fine repeating detail and animals do not hold still. Phone cameras lose on both counts.