Church Photos
Scratched Church Photos
Scratched church photos usually come out of loose storage in a shoebox, a drawer shared with keys and coins, or a print dragged across scanner glass. On a church photo the scratching shows as fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction, right across a congregation on the steps, a robed choir or the church building itself.
Upload a scan or a phone photo of the scratched church photo and the AI-powered repair comes back in seconds with the architecture, the vestments and the steps left as they were. Where the scratching covered a face in church photos, check the result against family memory before you print it.
If the scratching on the church photo is worse than it looks, run Scratch & Tear Repair twice rather than reaching for a heavier setting. Then upscale the scratched church photos for a reprint, since the output keeps the shape of the upload.
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
- The architecture, the vestments and the steps, 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 church photos from the 1890s to 1980s
- Small faces of a congregation on the steps, a robed choir or the church building itself that the scratching has taken the detail from
- Scratched church photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 architecture, the vestments and the steps in the church photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the church photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on church photos, dark interiors, stained glass blown to white and a print that hung for years in a damp vestry, once the scratching is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a congregation on the steps, a robed choir or the church building itself
Recovers the eye and skin detail the scratching softened; keep it at natural strength on church photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the church photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the scratching repair, with the shape of the scratched church photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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