AI Photo Restoration

Creased Immigration Photos

A creased immigration 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 immigration photos from the 1890s to 1950s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for creased immigration 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 immigration photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back end up where they always were in the creased original.

Scan the creased immigration photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the creasing is the only thing left to repair. The immigration photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the creasing.

Creased Immigration Photos, the original print
Creased Immigration Photos
OriginalRestored

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

  • Creased immigration photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A creased immigration 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 immigration photo
  • A creased immigration photo that is the only copy anyone has

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back in the immigration photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Run a full pass on the immigration photo

    Picks up the remaining scratches, fading and softness on creased immigration photos after the creasing is removed.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the immigration photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the creasing repair, with the shape of the creased immigration photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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