Farm Photos
Cracked Farm Photos
A cracked farm 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 farm photos from the 1890s to 1960s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked farm 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 farm photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the barn, the equipment and the animals end up where they always were in the cracked original.
Scan the cracked farm 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 farm 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 the family in front of the barn, with horses, a tractor or a loaded wagon that the cracked emulsion has taken the detail from
- Cracked farm photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A cracked farm 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 farm 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 the barn, the equipment and the animals in the farm photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the farm photo
Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on farm photos, prints pinned up in a barn office, dusty, fly-specked, sun-faded and cracked along one edge, once the cracked emulsion is gone.
Stain & Spot Remover - 03
Upscale the farm photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the cracked emulsion repair, with the shape of the cracked farm photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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