Band Photos
Stained Band Photos
A stained band photo is a common case: coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day leaves brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky, and band photos from the 1930s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for stained band photos: it targets brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky and leaves the rest of the band photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head end up where they always were in the stained original.
Scan the stained band photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the staining is the only thing left to repair. The band photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the staining.


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
- Stained band photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A stained band photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky, spread over a band photo
- A stained band photo that is the only copy anyone has
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the staining
Stain & Spot Remover targets brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky while keeping the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head in the band photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the band photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on band photos, flash bounce off the brass, a stage that went black and a photocopy standing in for the lost print, once the staining is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Upscale the band photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained band photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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