AI Photo Restoration

Scratched Wedding Photos

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

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

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

Scratched Wedding Photos, the original print
Scratched Wedding 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

  • The lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet, 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 wedding photos from the 1920s to 1990s
  • Small faces of the couple, the wedding party and both sets of parents that the scratching has taken the detail from
  • Scratched wedding photos that a copy shop refused to touch

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 lace of the dress, the ring hands and the bouquet in the wedding photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the wedding photo

    Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on wedding photos, creases from years in a wallet, silvering along the edge of the veil and a magenta shift in 1970s color prints, once the scratching is gone.

    Photo Restoration
  3. 03

    Upscale the wedding photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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