Family Portraits
Creased Family Portraits
Creased family portraits usually come out of a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later. On a family portrait the creasing shows as a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face, right across three or four generations posed in a studio or on the front steps.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the creased family portrait and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with every face, the seating order and the clothing left as they were. Where the creasing covered a face in family portraits, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the creasing on the family portrait is worse than it looks, run Scratch & Tear Repair twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the creased family portraits 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
- Every face, the seating order and the clothing, hidden under the creasing
- Creasing from a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later, on family portraits from the 1880s to 1990s
- Small faces of three or four generations posed in a studio or on the front steps that the creasing has taken the detail from
- Creased family portraits 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 every face, the seating order and the clothing in the family portrait untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the family portrait
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on family portraits, a crack through the middle from a broken frame, silver mirroring in the shadows and a lost corner, once the creasing is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Sharpen the faces of three or four generations posed in a studio or on the front steps
Recovers the eye and skin detail the creasing softened; keep it at natural strength on family portraits unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the family portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the creasing repair, with the shape of the creased family portraits unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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