Will a great-great-grandparent nobody alive ever met still look like themselves after the album-page residue is removed?

The prompts keep every face, age and expression in the sticky-album ancestor portrait as photographed. Where the sticky-album area covered a face, compare the result with other ancestor portraits and with family memory before you print.

Do I need to scan sticky-album ancestor portraits?

A flat scan is best, but a phone photo of the sticky-album ancestor portrait works too; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop and remove glare, then repair the album-page residue.

How many credits does a sticky-album ancestor portrait take?

The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard restoration of sticky-album ancestor portraits. Pro and Max return more detail on the features, the period clothing and the studio props where the album-page residue was heavy; see pricing for the current amounts.

Can I colorize the ancestor portrait after fixing the album-page residue?

Yes. Repair the sticky-album ancestor portrait first, then run the Photo Colorizer on the result. Colors are inferred from the era and the materials in the repaired sticky-album ancestor portraits, so type any remembered colors into the hints field.

Ancestor Portraits

Sticky-Album Ancestor Portraits

A sticky-album ancestor portrait is a common case: the self-adhesive magnetic albums sold from the 1970s onward, whose glue yellows and bonds to the print leaves yellow stripes of adhesive on the front and back, torn emulsion where the print was peeled off, and a tacky film, and ancestor portraits from the 1850s to 1910s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album ancestor portraits: it targets yellow stripes of adhesive on the front and back, torn emulsion where the print was peeled off, and a tacky film and leaves the rest of the ancestor portrait alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the features, the period clothing and the studio props end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.

Scan the sticky-album ancestor portrait flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the album-page residue is the only thing left to repair. The ancestor portraits come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the album-page residue.

Open with these settings Scratch & Tear Repair

Sticky-Album Ancestor Portraits, 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 features, the period clothing and the studio props, hidden under the album-page residue
Album-page residue from the self-adhesive magnetic albums sold from the 1970s onward, whose glue yellows and bonds to the print, on ancestor portraits from the 1850s to 1910s
Small faces of a great-great-grandparent nobody alive ever met that the album-page residue has taken the detail from
Sticky-album ancestor portraits that a copy shop refused to touch

Suggested order of passes

01
Remove the album-page residue
Scratch & Tear Repair targets yellow stripes of adhesive on the front and back, torn emulsion where the print was peeled off, and a tacky film while keeping the features, the period clothing and the studio props in the ancestor portrait untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair
02
Repair the rest of the ancestor portrait
Tintype & Daguerreotype Restoration addresses the usual wear on ancestor portraits, silver mirroring, a tarnished tintype surface and cabinet-card mounts that have gone brittle, once the album-page residue is gone.
Tintype & Daguerreotype Restoration
03
Upscale the ancestor portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album ancestor portraits unchanged.
Image Upscaler