School Photos
Creased School Photos
A creased school portrait 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 school photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for creased school 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 school portrait alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile end up where they always were in the creased original.
Scan the creased school portrait flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the creasing is the only thing left to repair. The school 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 school photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn that the creasing has taken the detail from
- Creased school photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A creased school portrait 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 backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile in the school portrait untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the school portrait
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on school photos, wallet-size prints traded between friends, creased, stuck to album pages and faded to orange, once the creasing is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Upscale the school portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the creasing repair, with the shape of the creased school photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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