Anniversary Photos
Sticky-Album Anniversary Photos
A sticky-album anniversary photo 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 anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album anniversary photos: 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 anniversary photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the cake, the banner and the couple's faces end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.
Scan the sticky-album anniversary photo 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 anniversary photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the album-page residue.
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
- Album-page residue from the self-adhesive magnetic albums sold from the 1970s onward, whose glue yellows and bonds to the print, on anniversary photos from the 1950s to 1990s
- Small faces of a couple cutting a cake decades after their wedding, surrounded by their children that the album-page residue has taken the detail from
- Sticky-album anniversary photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A sticky-album anniversary photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 cake, the banner and the couple's faces in the anniversary photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the anniversary photo
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on anniversary photos, an orange indoor cast, a crease through the cake and grain from a fast film pushed in dim light, once the album-page residue is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Upscale the anniversary photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album anniversary photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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