Immigration Photos
Water-Damaged Immigration Photos
A water-damaged immigration photo is a common case: a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage leaves brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve, and immigration photos from the 1890s to 1950s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for water-damaged immigration photos: it targets brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve and leaves the rest of the immigration photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back end up where they always were in the water-damaged original.
Scan the water-damaged immigration photo flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the water damage is the only thing left to repair. The immigration photos come back in seconds, and the 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first Standard pass at the water damage.
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
- Brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve, spread over a immigration photo
- A water-damaged immigration photo that is the only copy anyone has
- The luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back, hidden under the water damage
- Water damage from a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage, on immigration photos from the 1890s to 1950s
Suggested order of passes
- 01
Remove the water damage
Stain & Spot Remover targets brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve while keeping the luggage tags, the clothing and any writing on the back in the immigration photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the immigration photo
Scratch & Tear Repair addresses the usual wear on immigration photos, prints that crossed an ocean in a trunk, creased, water-marked and rubbed through at every fold, once the water damage is gone.
Scratch & Tear Repair - 03
Upscale the immigration photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the water damage repair, with the shape of the water-damaged immigration photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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