AI Photo Restoration

Cracked Honeymoon Photos

A cracked honeymoon 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 honeymoon photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked honeymoon 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 honeymoon photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the hotel sign, the clothing and the view behind them end up where they always were in the cracked original.

Scan the cracked honeymoon 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 honeymoon photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the cracked emulsion.

Cracked Honeymoon Photos, the original print
Cracked Honeymoon Photos
OriginalRestored

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 honeymoon 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 honeymoon photo
  • A cracked honeymoon photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The hotel sign, the clothing and the view behind them, hidden under the cracked emulsion

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 hotel sign, the clothing and the view behind them in the honeymoon photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the honeymoon photo

    Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on honeymoon photos, slides gone red, prints with a cyan sky and a fold from being tucked into a suitcase pocket, once the cracked emulsion is gone.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the honeymoon photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the cracked emulsion repair, with the shape of the cracked honeymoon photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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