Baby Photos
Sticky-Album Baby Photos
A sticky-album baby 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 baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album baby 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 baby photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.
Scan the sticky-album baby 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 baby 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
- A sticky-album baby photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern, 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 baby photos from the 1930s to 1980s
- Small faces of a newborn or toddler, sometimes with a parent's hands holding them up that the album-page residue has taken the detail from
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 christening gown, the fine hair and the blanket pattern in the baby photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the baby photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on baby photos, soft focus from a slow lens, thumbprints on the emulsion and whites gone warm and yellow, once the album-page residue is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Upscale the baby photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album baby photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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