Band Photos
Torn Band Photos
Band photos showing a ragged white line where the paper fibers show, sometimes with a missing corner or a whole strip gone have almost always met a print pulled out of a frame or an album, an argument over who keeps it, or a small child's hands. The tearing sits on top of the image of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments, which is still there underneath.
Nothing in the band photo is redrawn for effect; the tearing is treated as a layer to remove and the image of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments as the thing to keep. If the torn area covered the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head, the fill is inferred from what survives around it.
Start with Scratch & Tear Repair on the torn band photo, then chain Face Restoration or the upscaler in the Studio if the band photos need it. The 4 free credits on a new account cover one Standard run on torn band photos.
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 torn band photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head, hidden under the tearing
- Tearing from a print pulled out of a frame or an album, an argument over who keeps it, or a small child's hands, on band photos from the 1930s to 1990s
- Small faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments that the tearing has taken the detail from
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the tearing
Scratch & Tear Repair targets a ragged white line where the paper fibers show, sometimes with a missing corner or a whole strip gone while keeping the instruments, the uniforms and the lettering on the drum head in the band photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the band photo
Exposure Fixer addresses the usual wear on band photos, flash bounce off the brass, a stage that went black and a photocopy standing in for the lost print, once the tearing is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Sharpen the faces of a marching band, a garage band or the school orchestra holding their instruments
Recovers the eye and skin detail the tearing softened; keep it at natural strength on band photos unless the faces are tiny.
Face Restoration - 04
Upscale the band photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the tearing repair, with the shape of the torn band photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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