Wartime Photos
Stained Wartime Photos
A stained wartime 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 wartime photos from the 1910s to 1940s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for stained wartime 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 wartime photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting end up where they always were in the stained original.
Scan the stained wartime photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the staining is the only thing left to repair. The wartime 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 wartime photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A stained wartime 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 wartime photo
- A stained wartime 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 uniform, the date on the back and the handwriting in the wartime photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the wartime photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on wartime photos, tiny contact prints, censor marks, folds from being mailed in a letter and fading from a mantelpiece, once the staining is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Upscale the wartime photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the staining repair, with the shape of the stained wartime photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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