The Three-Eight Line on the Desk
In the bottom drawer of the desk, in an old notebook, there's a photo stuck with transparent tape: in the fourth-grade classroom, sunlight shines obliquely through the window onto the desk, I and Amin lie at both ends of the table, with a crooked "Three-Eight Line" drawn with chalk in the middle, his elbow crosses the line by one millimeter, I'm frowning and staring at him.
But the tape on the photo edges is already yellowed, Amin's freckles are blurred, even the blue pen without a cap in his hand is barely visible - only after processing with photo restoration tools did those details smoothed by time suddenly become clear, as if you could hear him murmuring softly "What's wrong with going over a little bit".
Noisy Childhood Friends
In everyone's childhood, there's a group of noisy friends. Stealing mulberries from neighbors on the way home and getting hands black-purple; catching fish by the river in summer, getting bitten by mosquitoes but laughing happily; sharing a bag of spicy snacks in the classroom in winter and burning tongues... These images are hidden in old photos, some wrinkled from rain, some damaged from frequent viewing, some losing their vitality in black and white images.
But now, technology can help us polish these lively moments again: old photo colorization can make 1990s school uniforms reappear in blue-white freshness, restore the bright red juice splashing on T-shirts when eating watermelon in summer; photo restoration can repair torn corners of spring outing group photos, letting the shy girl who always stands in the back show a complete smile.
Bringing Childhood to Life
And static image-to-video technology can bring static images to life - that relay race photo from the sports meet, after processing, shows the arm movement of the fastest runner A-Jie, the tense pursed lips during baton handover.
A user once shared a black and white photo from the elementary school New Year's party: the whole class crowded on the simple stage, some holding homemade lanterns, some wearing paper masks. After colorization and restoration, she suddenly recognized the girl in the red sweater in the corner - her desk mate who never contacted again after transferring schools: "She had two bun hairstyles that day, I had forgotten".
Picking Up Forgotten Fragments Again
This is the surprise hidden in old photos, technology gives these forgotten fragments the possibility to be picked up again: when blurry images become clear, when monotonous black and white images get color, when static moments become dynamic, those noisy days seem never to have gone away, the friends who laughed and cried together seem still by your side.
If you also have such a collection of old photos with stories, try using technology to 'renew' them. Perhaps in the restored photos, you'll discover that the boy who fought with you over comics then actually secretly folded the best page for you; perhaps in the dynamic images, you'll see friends jumping rubber bands, swaying to the rhythm.