AI Photo Restoration

Moldy School Photos

A moldy school portrait is a common case: years in a humid attic, a cardboard box on a concrete floor or a plastic sleeve that trapped moisture leaves fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print, and school photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for moldy school photos: it targets fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print 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 moldy original.

Scan the moldy school portrait flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the mold 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 mold.

Moldy School Photos, the original print
Moldy School 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

  • The backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile, hidden under the mold
  • Mold from years in a humid attic, a cardboard box on a concrete floor or a plastic sleeve that trapped moisture, 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 mold has taken the detail from
  • Moldy school photos that a copy shop refused to touch

Suggested order of passes

  1. 01

    Remove the mold

    Stain & Spot Remover targets fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print while keeping the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile in the school portrait untouched.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  2. 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 mold is gone.

    Faded Photo Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the school portrait for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the mold repair, with the shape of the moldy school photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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