Creased Honeymoon Photos

When creasing reaches a honeymoon 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 honeymoon photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the creased honeymoon photo as a repair job: it removes the creasing and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the hotel sign, the clothing and the view behind them as photographed. Faces of the couple in their first week away, at a hotel, a beach or a scenic overlook that were lost to the creasing are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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