Childhood Photos
Scratched Childhood Photos
A scratched childhood 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 childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for scratched childhood photos: it targets fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction and leaves the rest of the childhood photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the toys, the clothing and the expression end up where they always were in the scratched original.
Scan the scratched childhood photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the scratching is the only thing left to repair. The childhood 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
- Fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction, spread over a childhood photo
- A scratched childhood photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The toys, the clothing and the expression, 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 childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the scratching is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the scratching repair, with the shape of the scratched childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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