AI Photo Restoration

Scratched Holiday Photos

A scratched holiday 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 holiday photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

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

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

Scratched Holiday Photos, the original print
Scratched Holiday 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 the family around the tree, the table or the menorah that the scratching has taken the detail from
  • Scratched holiday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A scratched holiday 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 holiday 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 the decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights in the holiday photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the holiday photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on holiday photos, an orange cast from indoor bulbs, red-eye from the flash and a date stamp in the corner, once the scratching is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the holiday photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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