Vacation Photos
Scratched Vacation Photos
Vacation photos showing fine white or dark lines across the emulsion, often clustered in one direction have almost always met loose storage in a shoebox, a drawer shared with keys and coins, or a print dragged across scanner glass. The scratching sits on top of the image of parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the vacation photo is redrawn for effect; the scratching is treated as a layer to remove and the image of parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car as the thing to keep. If the scratched area covered the landmark, the car and the swimsuits, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Scratch & Tear Repair on the scratched vacation photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the vacation photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on scratched vacation photos.
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
- Scratching from loose storage in a shoebox, a drawer shared with keys and coins, or a print dragged across scanner glass, on vacation photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car that the scratching has taken the detail from
- Scratched vacation photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A scratched vacation photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 landmark, the car and the swimsuits in the vacation photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the vacation photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on vacation photos, sun-bleached skies, a cyan cast from a hot glovebox and scratches from loose storage in an envelope, once the scratching is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car
Recovers the eye and skin detail the scratching softened; keep it at natural strength on vacation photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the vacation photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the scratching repair, with the shape of the scratched vacation photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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