Sports Team Photos
Cracked Sports Team Photos
Sports team 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 two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the team photo is redrawn for effect; the cracked emulsion is treated as a layer to remove and the image of two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front as the thing to keep. If the cracked area covered the jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Scratch & Tear Repair on the cracked team photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the sports team photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on cracked sports team photos.
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 team 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 team photo
- A cracked team photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner, hidden under the cracked emulsion
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 jersey numbers, the trophy and the team banner in the team photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the team photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on sports team photos, tiny faces in a wide frame, a crease through the back row and jersey colors faded to pastel, once the cracked emulsion is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of two rows of players with the coach at one end and a ball on the ground in front
Recovers the eye and skin detail the cracked emulsion softened; keep it at natural strength on sports team photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the team photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the cracked emulsion repair, with the shape of the cracked sports team photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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