Anniversary Photos
Scratched Anniversary Photos
A scratched anniversary photo is a common case: loose storage in a shoebox, a drawer shared with keys and coins, or a print dragged across scanner glass leaves fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction, and anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for scratched anniversary photos: it targets fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction and leaves the rest of the anniversary photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the banner and the couple's faces end up where they always were in the scratched original.
Scan the scratched anniversary photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the scratching is the only thing left to repair. The anniversary photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the scratching.


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
- A scratched anniversary photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The cake, the banner and the couple's faces, hidden under the scratching
- Scratching from loose storage in a shoebox, a drawer shared with keys and coins, or a print dragged across scanner glass, on anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children that the scratching has taken the detail from
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the scratching
Scratch & Tear Repair targets fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction while keeping the cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the anniversary photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on anniversary photos, an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light, once the scratching is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the scratching repair, with the shape of the scratched anniversary photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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