Torn Workplace Photos

When tearing reaches a workplace photo, the result is a ragged white line where the paper fibers show, sometimes with a missing corner or a whole strip gone. The cause is nearly always a print pulled out of a frame or an album, an argument over who keeps it, or a small child's hands, and workplace photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the torn workplace photo as a repair job: it removes the tearing 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 tearing are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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