Anniversary Photos
Cracked Anniversary Photos
A cracked anniversary photo is a common case: a print that dried out and stiffened before it was bent, or a plate whose coating crazed with age leaves a web of fine dark or light lines across the surface, with flakes lifting where the cracks meet, and anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked anniversary photos: it targets a web of fine dark or light lines across the surface, with flakes lifting where the cracks meet and leaves the rest of the anniversary photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the banner and the couple's faces end up where they always were in the cracked original.
Scan the cracked anniversary photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the cracked emulsion is the only thing left to repair. The anniversary photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the cracked emulsion.
Original on the left, restored on the right; hover to see more of the repair. Made in the Studio from a scan of the print.
What matters for these photos
- Cracked emulsion from a print that dried out and stiffened before it was bent, or a plate whose coating crazed with age, on anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children that the cracked emulsion has taken the detail from
- Cracked anniversary photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A cracked anniversary photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the cracked emulsion
Scratch & Tear Repair targets a web of fine dark or light lines across the surface, with flakes lifting where the cracks meet while keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the anniversary photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on anniversary photos, an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light, once the cracked emulsion is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the cracked emulsion repair, with the shape of the cracked anniversary photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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