Class Photos
Cracked Class Photos
A cracked class 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 class photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked class 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 class photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so each child's face, the name board and the teacher end up where they always were in the cracked original.
Scan the cracked class 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 class 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
- Small faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side that the cracked emulsion has taken the detail from
- Cracked class photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A cracked class photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- A web of fine dark or light lines across the surface, with flakes lifting where the cracks meet, spread over a class photo
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 each child's face, the name board and the teacher in the class photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the class photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on class photos, a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends, once the cracked emulsion is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Upscale the class photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the cracked emulsion repair, with the shape of the cracked class photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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