It's remarkable how much information you can glean from a clearer image of Someone's Face
Modern photography has been changing since its creation in 1826. But, technology apart, it's fairly amazing that we can look at actual photos (rather than sketches or painted portraits) of people's faces from over 200 years ago.
This is especially true of our own family photographs. Whether the earliest ones you have are posed studio photos or more recent, candid images, some of the faces of prior generations may be difficult to recognize. Fortunately, there is an online application that can help. Even better, it's completely free. Here's what you need to know.
How to use the free online photo restoration tool
This online tool—called GFPGAN—first made it onto our radar when it was featured in the August 28 edition of the (excellent) Recomendo newsletter, specifically, a post by Kevin Kelly. In it, he says that he uses this free program to restore his own old family photos, noting that it focuses solely on the faces of those pictured, and “works pretty well, sometimes perfectly, in color and black and white.”
There are several ways to access the program—as outlined in this post on ByteXD—but we got there using this Baseten web page, per Kelly’s recommendation.
The tool is really simple to use. When you use your phone to access GFPGAN, you can choose a photo from your library or take a new one. On a laptop, the only choice was to select a file from your PC.
Anyway, once you've uploaded the photo, tap or click the green "Restore photo" button and wait for the result. While the outcomes are not immediate, the restoration process takes about 15 to 20 seconds.
Your original image will appear on the left first, followed by the restored image on the right a few seconds later. You can download the restored photo by clicking on the link directly beneath it. That's all!
Of course, if a photo has been damaged and a portion of someone's face has been torn off, GFPGAN cannot make it appear again, but it can improve the quality of what is there. As an example, here's a screenshot from the Baseten web page version of the software, featuring one of my own family photos:
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SOURCE: lifehacker
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