AI Photo Restoration

Cracked Wedding Photos

A cracked wedding 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 wedding photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for cracked wedding 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 wedding photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet end up where they always were in the cracked original.

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

Cracked Wedding Photos, the original print
Cracked Wedding 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

  • The lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet, hidden under the cracked emulsion
  • Cracked emulsion from a print that dried out and stiffened before it was bent, or a plate whose coating crazed with age, on wedding photos from the 1920s to 1990s
  • Small faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents that the cracked emulsion has taken the detail from
  • Cracked wedding photos that a copy shop refused to touch

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 lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet in the wedding photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the wedding photo

    Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on wedding photos, creases from years in a wallet, silvering along the edge of the veil and a magenta shift in 1970s color prints, once the cracked emulsion is gone.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the wedding photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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