Childhood Photos
Sticky-Album Childhood Photos
A sticky-album childhood 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 childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album childhood 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 childhood photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the toys, the clothing and the expression end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.
Scan the sticky-album childhood 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 childhood 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 childhood photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Yellow stripes of adhesive on the front and back, torn emulsion where the print was peeled off, and a tacky film, spread over a childhood photo
- A sticky-album childhood photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The toys, the clothing and the expression, hidden under the album-page residue
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the album-page residue is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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