Water-Damaged Honeymoon Photos

When water damage reaches a honeymoon photo, the result is brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve. The cause is nearly always a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage, and honeymoon photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the water-damaged honeymoon photo as a repair job: it removes the water damage and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the hotel sign, the clothing and the view behind them as photographed. Faces of the couple in their first week away, at a hotel, a beach or a scenic overlook that were lost to the water damage are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

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