AI Photo Restoration

Scratched Baptism Photos

A scratched baptism 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 baptism photos from the 1900s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

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

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

Scratched Baptism Photos, the original print
Scratched Baptism 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 baptism photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The gown, the font and the faces of the godparents, 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 baptism photos from the 1900s to 1990s
  • Small faces of an infant in a long white gown held by the godparents at the font 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 gown, the font and the faces of the godparents in the baptism photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the baptism photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on baptism photos, the white gown blown out by flash, church shadows blocked up and a fold straight across the baby, once the scratching is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the baptism photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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