AI Photo Restoration

Scratched Baby Photos

A scratched baby 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 baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for scratched baby photos: it targets fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction and leaves the rest of the baby photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern end up where they always were in the scratched original.

Scan the scratched baby photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the scratching is the only thing left to repair. The baby photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the scratching.

Scratched Baby Photos, the original print
Scratched Baby 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

  • A scratched baby photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern, 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 baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s
  • Small faces of a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up that the scratching has taken the detail from

Suggested order of passes

  1. 01

    Remove the scratching

    Scratch & Tear Repair targets fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction while keeping the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern in the baby photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the baby photo

    Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on baby photos, soft focus from a slow lens, thumbprints on the emulsion and whites gone warm and yellow, once the scratching is gone.

    Face Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the baby photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the scratching repair, with the shape of the scratched baby photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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