AI Photo Restoration

Scratched House Photos

A scratched house 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

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

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

Scratched House Photos, the original print
Scratched House 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 house photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The porch details, the windows and the house number, 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s
  • Small faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard 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 porch details, the windows and the house number in the house photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the house photo

    Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on house photos, mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white, once the scratching is gone.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  3. 03

    Upscale the house photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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