Class Photos
Sticky-Album Class Photos
A sticky-album class 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 class photos from the 1920s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album class 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 class photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so each child's face, the name board and the teacher end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.
Scan the sticky-album class 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 class 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 class photo that is the only copy anyone has
- Each child's face, the name board and the teacher, 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 class photos from the 1920s to 1990s
- Small faces of thirty children in rows with the teacher standing at the side 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 each child's face, the name board and the teacher in the class photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the class photo
Face Restoration addresses the usual wear on class photos, a long panoramic print rolled for decades, cracked along the curl and faded at both ends, once the album-page residue is gone.
Face Restoration - 03
Upscale the class photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album class photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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