AI Photo Restoration

Cracked House Photos

A cracked house 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked house 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 house photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the porch details, the windows and the house number end up where they always were in the cracked original.

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

Cracked House Photos, the original print
Cracked House 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

  • Small faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard that the cracked emulsion has taken the detail from
  • Cracked house photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A cracked house 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 house photo

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 porch details, the windows and the house number in the house photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the house photo

    Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on house photos, mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white, once the cracked emulsion is gone.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  3. 03

    Upscale the house photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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