Stained Pet Photos

When staining reaches a pet photo, the result is brown or grey blotches with hard edges, sometimes a ring, sometimes a smear across the sky. The cause is nearly always coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day, and pet photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the stained pet photo as a repair job: it removes the staining and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the markings, the collar and the coat texture as photographed. Faces of a dog, cat or horse, sometimes with a child holding the lead that were lost to the staining are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For stained pet photos the order is staining first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a pet photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a stained print more detail for reprinting.