Childhood Photos
Torn Childhood Photos
A torn childhood photo is a common case: a print pulled out of a frame or an album, an argument over who keeps it, or a small child's hands leaves a ragged white line where the paper fibers show, sometimes with a missing corner or a whole strip gone, and childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for torn childhood photos: it targets a ragged white line where the paper fibers show, sometimes with a missing corner or a whole strip gone and leaves the rest of the childhood photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the toys, the clothing and the expression end up where they always were in the torn original.
Scan the torn childhood photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the tearing is the only thing left to repair. The childhood photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the tearing.


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
- 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 childhood photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of you or your parents as children, in the yard, at the table or on a bike that the tearing has taken the detail from
- Torn childhood photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A torn childhood photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
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 toys, the clothing and the expression in the childhood photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the childhood photo
Photo Restoration addresses the usual wear on childhood photos, square prints with rounded corners gone orange, a bent corner and a thumbprint over a face, once the tearing is gone.
Photo Restoration - 03
Upscale the childhood photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the tearing repair, with the shape of the torn childhood photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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