AI Photo Restoration

Scratched Class Photos

A scratched class 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 class photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for scratched class photos: it targets fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction and leaves the rest of the class photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so each child's face, the name board and the teacher end up where they always were in the scratched original.

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

Scratched Class Photos, the original print
Scratched Class 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

  • Small faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side that the scratching has taken the detail from
  • Scratched class photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A scratched class photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
  • Fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction, spread over a class photo

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 each child's face, the name board and the teacher in the class photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the class photo

    Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on class photos, a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends, once the scratching is gone.

    Face Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the class photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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