Holiday Photos
Torn Holiday Photos
A torn holiday 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 holiday photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for torn holiday 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 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 torn original.
Scan the torn holiday photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the tearing 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 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
- Small faces of the family around the tree, the table or the menorah that the tearing has taken the detail from
- Torn holiday photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A torn holiday photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- A ragged white line where the paper fibers show, sometimes with a missing corner or a whole strip gone, spread over a holiday photo
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 decorations, the wrapping paper and the tree lights in the holiday photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 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 tearing is gone.
Exposure Fixer - 03
Upscale the holiday photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the tearing repair, with the shape of the torn holiday photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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