Moldy Wedding Photos

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

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

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