Enhance a Wedding Photo and Keep the Couple

Sort the card before you pick a mode

Flash frames are often sharp and a little harsh. Ambient frames are often true and smeared. Noise lives in the ambient shadows. A short camera shake can take unblur. A long smear of a dancing couple cannot, and the motion page explains why a five-position hand should stay. Do not run one mode across the card because the import dialog made it easy.

Faces are the portrait problem with a witness. Face restore can put a contemporary smile on someone the family will notice. Use it only when the features have collapsed, on Pro, with another picture of that person nearby. Unblur is the guest test when the face is soft but still theirs. Denoise the speckled background and stop when skin turns to wax.

The dress and the suit are fabric. A weave that doubles or a lace edge that fringes is the tell that 4× went past the evidence. Prove the enlarge on a crop of the lace before you spend two credits a frame across the set. 8× is almost never the right tool for a day that was already photographed on a modern camera.

Batch the day like a proof, not a dump

Pro batches 12. Studio batches 40. A wedding is larger than either, so it is several jobs, and the first job is one frame. If that frame ghosts a mullion or changes a face, stop. The credits you did not spend are the point of the test. Packs exist for a delivery week: they last 365 days, spend after plan credits, and are not refunded. A failed frame still returns its credit.

Commercial use is allowed on every plan, including Free plan, when you have the rights. A couple’s contract is your business. Our processing license lasts 24 hours and is not a model release. Download the selects and store them in the gallery you actually deliver. We delete ours, on a paid plan the same as on a guest repair.

The free download of 3,200 px covers an 8×10 proof at 300 ppi. An album spread that needs a longer edge is Pro or Studio. Do not describe the free file as the album master if the spread is larger. The preview is full quality either way, with no watermark and free pages show ads, so you can reject a frame before you pay for the size.

What not to do to a wedding

Do not colorize a color reception. Colorize is for a black-and-white photograph, and the dyes are a guess. A black-and-white set the couple asked for in color is the colorize page, after denoise, and both versions should be kept. Do not invert a negative here. Do not decode HEIC. Export the camera roll first, at the original long edge, or you will repair a shrunk JPEG.

A detail of the rings or the invitation is the text problem. Read the names after any repair. A changed letter on a place card is a failure that looks like a success. Crop the photograph and retype the card if the words are the subject.

The API can run the proved mode across a selects folder, inside the batch cap and the ten-minute window. It will not watch a folder overnight, and it will not still have the files in the morning. Pro is $12 or $120 a year. Studio is $29 or $290. Cancel anytime. The fee is not refunded.

A worked frame

Pick the first dance, not the formals. The formals are probably fine. The dance is ambient, a little noisy, and the couple’s hands may be short streaks. Denoise the background speckle and look at the lace on the dress before you unblur. If the lace doubles, stop, even if the noise improved. If the hands are five positions long, leave the motion. It is the dance. Do not face-restore the couple because the room was dark. Their features are probably still there. Unblur is the one-credit test if the faces are merely soft, and another photograph from the formals is the likeness check. Only after that frame is a file you would print do you batch similar ambient frames, 12 at a time on Pro. A wedding is more than 12. The rest wait for the next job, and all of them are deleted here after 24 hours, so the gallery you deliver is the one you downloaded. The free 3200 px edge covers an 8×10 proof of this dance. The album spread, if it is larger, is the paid file.