Moldy Honeymoon Photos

When mold reaches a honeymoon photo, the result is fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print. The cause is nearly always years in a humid attic, a cardboard box on a concrete floor or a plastic sleeve that trapped moisture, and honeymoon photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the moldy honeymoon photo as a repair job: it removes the mold 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 mold are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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