House Photos
Torn House Photos
A torn house 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Scratch & Tear Repair is the tool for torn house 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 house photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the porch details, the windows and the house number end up where they always were in the torn original.
Scan the torn house photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the tearing is the only thing left to repair. The house 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
- The porch details, the windows and the house number, 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 house photos from the 1900s to 1980s
- Small faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard that the tearing has taken the detail from
- Torn house photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 porch details, the windows and the house number in the house photo untouched.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 02
Repair the rest of the house photo
Stain & Spot Remover addresses the usual wear on house photos, mildew spots from a damp basement box, a torn corner and a sky that has faded to paper white, once the tearing is gone.
Stain & Spot Remover - 03
Upscale the house photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the tearing repair, with the shape of the torn house photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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