Prom Photos
Creased Prom Photos
A creased prom 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 prom photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for creased prom 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 prom photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the corsage, the dress color and the backdrop end up where they always were in the creased original.
Scan the creased prom photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the creasing is the only thing left to repair. The prom 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
- Creasing from a print folded into a wallet, a letter or a pocket, then flattened again decades later, on prom photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a couple posed under an arch or against a painted backdrop that the creasing has taken the detail from
- Creased prom photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A creased prom photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 corsage, the dress color and the backdrop in the prom photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the prom photo
Red-Eye Removal addresses the usual wear on prom photos, a cardboard folder stuck to the print, red-eye from the flash and a heavy magenta shift, once the creasing is gone.
Red-Eye Removal - 03
Upscale the prom photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the creasing repair, with the shape of the creased prom photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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