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I was going to post this in "The Parlor," but that seems to get so few hits, and this is useful for posting phono images, especially those taken from online videos as screen captures.

I was experimenting with a number of the new (free, online) AI based photo tools, and found this one -- https://unblurimage.ai/ -- which worked the best. It can be used to sharpen any image.

Here's a before and after shot of a screen capture I made from an online movie, "It's a Great Life" (1929 Technicolor finale) --

This is a cool tool. Thanks for sharing

An interesting tool, but it has its limitations. Here's an image I ran through it out of curiosity. It's certainly sharper that the original, but the people look like they stepped out of a horror movie, especially the baby and the woman to its right, and Rosemary's baby sitting on the floor. The photo of Edison on the wall turned into a drawing by Picasso, who apparently also painted over the decal on the lid. And those hands! (Click to enlarge for full effect.)

Please watermark anything upscaled with AI, I'd like to be able to tell the difference

TinfoilPhono wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 2:08 pm An interesting tool, but it has its limitations. Here's an image I ran through it out of curiosity. It's certainly sharper that the original, but the people look like they stepped out of a horror movie, especially the baby and the woman to its right, and Rosemary's baby sitting on the floor. The photo of Edison on the wall turned into a drawing by Picasso, who apparently also painted over the decal on the lid. And those hands! (Click to enlarge for full effect.)

Scary! I would try it on a photo of my dear-departed mother-in-law, but unfortunately all her photos suffered from spontaneous combustion when she left this world and departed to a hotter place.

TinfoilPhono wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 2:08 pm An interesting tool, but it has its limitations. Here's an image I ran through it out of curiosity. It's certainly sharper that the original, but the people look like they stepped out of a horror movie, especially the baby and the woman to its right, and Rosemary's baby sitting on the floor. The photo of Edison on the wall turned into a drawing by Picasso, who apparently also painted over the decal on the lid. And those hands! (Click to enlarge for full effect.)

I discovered that too with a few images I tried. Here's another online free tool -- https://remaker.ai/features/unblur-image/ that seems to work even better. Here are the results from your original image: The little girl still looks like Wednesday Addams, but she did in the original photo too.

There are many more free online AI based photo/image deblurers, upscalers, colorizers, etc. now, so it pays to do some Googling to see what works best.

OrthoFan

And the baby in the original already looked like Edison's granny!!