Funeral and Memorial Photos
Creased Funeral and Memorial Photos
A creased memorial photo is a common case: a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later leaves a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face, and funeral and memorial photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for creased funeral and memorial photos: it targets a white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face and leaves the rest of the memorial photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the face, the expression and the way they held themselves end up where they always were in the creased original.
Scan the creased memorial photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the creasing is the only thing left to repair. The funeral and memorial photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the creasing.
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
- Small faces of the person being remembered, in the last good picture the family has of them that the creasing has taken the detail from
- Creased funeral and memorial photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A creased memorial photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- A white line where the emulsion broke along the fold, very often straight through a face, spread over a memorial photo
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 face, the expression and the way they held themselves in the memorial photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the memorial photo
Memorial Portrait addresses the usual wear on funeral and memorial photos, a snapshot never meant to be a portrait, soft in focus, with a flash shadow and someone's arm at the edge, once the creasing is gone.
Memorial Portrait - 03
Upscale the memorial photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the creasing repair, with the shape of the creased funeral and memorial photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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