Prom Photos
Water-Damaged Prom Photos
A water-damaged prom 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 prom photos from the 1950s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for water-damaged prom 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 prom photo alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the corsage, the dress color and the backdrop end up where they always were in the water-damaged original.
Scan the water-damaged prom 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 prom 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
- Small faces of a couple posed under an arch or against a painted backdrop that the water damage has taken the detail from
- Water-damaged prom photos that a copy shop refused to touch
- A water-damaged prom photo needed for a memorial, an anniversary or a reprint
- Brown tide lines, blotches where the emulsion swelled and prints stuck face to face or to the album sleeve, spread over a prom photo
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 corsage, the dress color and the backdrop in the prom photo untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the prom photo
Red-Eye Removal addresses the usual wear on prom photos, a cardboard folder stuck to the print, red-eye from the flash and a heavy magenta shift, once the water damage is gone.
Red-Eye Removal - 03
Upscale the prom photo for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the water damage repair, with the shape of the water-damaged prom photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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