Fix creased photos

If a print shows a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face, it is creased, and the likely history is a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later. The creasing sits on the surface while the image is, for the most part, still underneath.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool built for creased prints: it removes the creasing and rebuilds the area beneath from the surrounding grain and tone. It does not redraw the rest of the photograph, and the output keeps the shape of the creased upload.

Scan the creased print flat if you can, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so that creasing is the only problem left. Chain Face Restoration and the upscaler afterwards in the Studio if the creased print is going back on a wall.