AI Photo Restoration: What Can Actually Be Recovered
Archive prints and generative recovery: what is possible, where the limits are, and the question of fidelity.
Generative restoration does not repair pixels; it repaints the frame from what survives in the source. Hence the central question of this section: where recovering what was there ends and plausible invention begins.
The articles cover preparing a scan, working with badly damaged prints, animating archive frames, and the ethics — what can be published as family memory and what is already a reconstruction.
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Animating Old and Archive Photographs: What the Technology Can and Cannot Do
Film grain, damage, low contrast — how each affects the animation. Preparing an archive image, and the limits of what the result can honestly claim.
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Restoring Old Photographs: Where Recovery Ends and Invention Begins
The difference between removing damage and inventing what is lost. The order of work, honest expectations, and the question worth asking first.
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Animating Photos of People Who Have Died: How to Approach It Carefully
Technically it is ordinary animation. In its effects it is not. What to discuss with family, which motion is appropriate, and why restraint works better than expressiveness here.
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