AI Photo Restoration

Sticky-Album Holiday Photos

A sticky-album holiday 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 holiday photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.

Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for sticky-album holiday 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 holiday photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights end up where they always were in the sticky-album original.

Scan the sticky-album holiday 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 holiday 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 Holiday Photos, the original print
Sticky-Album Holiday 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

  • A sticky-album holiday 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 holiday photo
  • A sticky-album holiday photo that is the only copy anyone has
  • The decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights, hidden under the album-page residue

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 decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights in the holiday photo untouched.

    Scratch & Tear Repair
  2. 02

    Repair the rest of the holiday photo

    Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on holiday photos, an orange cast from indoor bulbs, red-eye from the flash and a date stamp in the corner, once the album-page residue is gone.

    Exposure Fixer
  3. 03

    Upscale the holiday photo for reprinting

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

    Image Upscaler

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