AI Photo Restoration

Cracked Pet Photos

Pet photos showing a web of fine dark or light lines across the surface, with flakes lifting where the cracks meet have almost always met a print that dried out and stiffened before it was bent, or a plate whose coating crazed with age. The cracked emulsion sits on top of the image of a dog, cat or horse, sometimes with a child holding the lead, which is still there underneath.

Nothing in the pet photo is redrawn for effect; the cracked emulsion is treated as a layer to remove and the image of a dog, cat or horse, sometimes with a child holding the lead as the thing to keep. If the cracked area covered the markings, the collar and the coat texture, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.

Start with Scratch & Tear Repair on the cracked pet photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the pet photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on cracked pet photos.

Cracked Pet Photos, the original print
Cracked Pet 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

  • Cracked pet photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A cracked pet 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 pet photo
  • A cracked pet photo that is the only copy anyone has

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 markings, the collar and the coat texture in the pet photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the pet photo

    Unblur Old Photos addresses the usual wear on pet photos, fur turned to mush by low resolution, motion blur from a wagging tail and green flash-eye, once the cracked emulsion is gone.

    Unblur Old Photos
  3. 03

    Sharpen the faces of a dog, cat or horse, sometimes with a child holding the lead

    Recovers the eye and skin detail the cracked emulsion softened; keep it at natural strength on pet photos unless the faces are tiny.

    Face Restoration
  4. 04

    Upscale the pet photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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