Creased Anniversary Photos

When creasing reaches a anniversary photo, the result is a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face. The cause is nearly always a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later, and anniversary photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the creased anniversary photo as a repair job: it removes the creasing and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces as photographed. Faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children that were lost to the creasing are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For creased anniversary photos the order is creasing first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a anniversary photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a creased print more detail for reprinting.