Birthday Photos
Creased Birthday Photos
Creased birthday photos usually come out of a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later. On a birthday photo the creasing shows as a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face, right across a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the creased birthday photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the cake, the candles and the party hats left as they were. Where the creasing covered a face in birthday photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the creasing on the birthday photo is worse than it looks, run Scratch & Tear Repair twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the creased birthday photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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 cake, the candles and the party hats, hidden under the creasing
- Creasing from a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later, on birthday photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit that the creasing has taken the detail from
- Creased birthday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the creasing
Scratch & Tear Repair targets a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face while keeping the cake, the candles and the party hats in the birthday photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the birthday photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on birthday photos, candlelight underexposed to near black, a yellow date stamp and an edge curled by a sticky album, once the creasing is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a child leaning over a cake with the candles lit
Recovers the eye and skin detail the creasing softened; keep it at natural strength on birthday photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the birthday photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the creasing repair, with the shape of the creased birthday photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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