Baptism Photos
Cracked Baptism Photos
A cracked baptism 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 baptism photos from the 1900s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked baptism 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 baptism photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the gown, the font and the faces of the godparents end up where they always were in the cracked original.
Scan the cracked baptism 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 baptism 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
- A cracked baptism photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The gown, the font and the faces of the godparents, hidden under the cracked emulsion
- Cracked emulsion from a print that dried out and stiffened before it was bent, or a plate whose coating crazed with age, on baptism photos from the 1900s to 1990s
- Small faces of an infant in a long white gown held by the godparents at the font that the cracked emulsion has taken the detail from
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 gown, the font and the faces of the godparents in the baptism photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the baptism photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on baptism photos, the white gown blown out by flash, church shadows blocked up and a fold straight across the baby, once the cracked emulsion is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Upscale the baptism photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the cracked emulsion repair, with the shape of the cracked baptism photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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