Will a crew lined up in front of the factory, shop, mine or office still look like themselves after the album-page residue is removed?

The prompts keep every face, age and expression in the sticky-album workplace photo as photographed. Where the sticky-album area covered a face, compare the result with other workplace photos and with family memory before you print.

Do I need to scan sticky-album workplace photos?

A flat scan is best, but a phone photo of the sticky-album workplace photo works too; run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first to crop and remove glare, then repair the album-page residue.

How many credits does a sticky-album workplace photo take?

The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard restoration of sticky-album workplace photos. Pro and Max return more detail on the signage, the tools and the company name where the album-page residue was heavy; see pricing for the current amounts.

Can I colorize the workplace photo after fixing the album-page residue?

Yes. Repair the sticky-album workplace photo first, then run the Photo Colorizer on the result. Colors are inferred from the era and the materials in the repaired sticky-album workplace photos, so type any remembered colors into the hints field.

Workplace Photos

Sticky-Album Workplace Photos

When album-page residue reaches a workplace photo, the result is yellow stripes of adhesive on the front and back, torn emulsion where the print was peeled off, and a tacky film. The cause is nearly always the self-adhesive magnetic albums sold from the 1970s onward, whose glue yellows and bonds to the print, and workplace photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the sticky-album workplace photo as a repair job: it removes the album-page residue and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the signage, the tools and the company name as photographed. Faces of a crew lined up in front of the factory, shop, mine or office that were lost to the album-page residue are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For sticky-album workplace photos the order is album-page residue first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a workplace photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a sticky-album print more detail for reprinting.

Open with these settings Scratch & Tear Repair

Sticky-Album Workplace Photos, the original print

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

Small faces of a crew lined up in front of the factory, shop, mine or office that the album-page residue has taken the detail from
Sticky-album workplace photos that a copy shop refused to touch
A sticky-album workplace 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 workplace photo

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 signage, the tools and the company name in the workplace photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair
02
Repair the rest of the workplace photo
Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on workplace photos, soot and dust in the grain, a print that spent years on a break-room wall and a yellow stripe of sun, once the album-page residue is gone.
Stain & Spot Remover
03
Upscale the workplace photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the album-page residue repair, with the shape of the sticky-album workplace photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler