Creased Wedding Photos

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

The restoration reads the creased wedding photo as a repair job: it removes the creasing and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet as photographed. Faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents that were lost to the creasing are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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