AI Photo Restoration

Sticky-Album Farm Photos

A sticky-album farm 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 farm photos from the 1890s to 1960s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album farm 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 farm photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the barn, the equipment and the animals end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.

Scan the sticky-album farm 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 farm photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the album-page residue.

Sticky-Album Farm Photos, the original print
Sticky-Album Farm Photos
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

  • Sticky-album farm photos that a copy shop refused to touch
  • A sticky-album farm 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 farm photo
  • A sticky-album farm photo that is the only copy anyone has

Suggested order of passes

  1. 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 barn, the equipment and the animals in the farm photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the farm photo

    Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on farm photos, prints pinned up in a barn office, dusty, fly-specked, sun-faded and cracked along one edge, once the album-page residue is gone.

    Stain & Spot Remover
  3. 03

    Upscale the farm photo for reprinting

    Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album farm photos unchanged.

    Image Upscaler

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