Will parents and children squinting in front of a landmark, a beach or the car still look like themselves after the staining is removed?

The prompts keep every face, age and expression in the stained vacation photo as photographed. Where the stained area covered a face, compare the result with other vacation photos and with family memory before you print.

Do I need to scan stained vacation photos?

A flat scan is best, but a phone photo of the stained vacation photo works too; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop and remove glare, then repair the staining.

How many credits does a stained vacation photo take?

The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard restoration of stained vacation photos. Pro and Max return more detail on the landmark, the car and the swimsuits where the staining was heavy; see pricing for the current amounts.

Can I colorize the vacation photo after fixing the staining?

Yes. Repair the stained vacation photo first, then run the Photo Colorizer on the result. Colors are inferred from the era and the materials in the repaired stained vacation photos, so type any remembered colors into the hints field.

Vacation Photos

Stained Vacation Photos

A stained vacation 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 vacation photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for stained vacation 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 vacation photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the landmark, the car and the swimsuits end up where they always were in the stained original.

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

Open with these settings Stain & Spot Remover

Stained Vacation Photos, the original print

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 landmark, the car and the swimsuits, hidden under the staining
Staining from coffee, ink, adhesive, fingerprints and whatever else was on the kitchen table that day, 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 staining has taken the detail from
Stained vacation photos that a copy shop refused to touch

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 landmark, the car and the swimsuits in the vacation photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover
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 staining is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer
03
Upscale the vacation photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained vacation photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler