School Photos
Water-Damaged School Photos
A water-damaged school portrait 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 school photos from the 1940s to 1990s were rarely stored well enough to escape it.
Stain & Spot Remover is the tool for water-damaged school 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 school portrait alone. Output follows the shape of the upload, so the backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile end up where they always were in the water-damaged original.
Scan the water-damaged school portrait flat, or photograph it and run Photo-of-a-Photo Fixer first, so the water damage is the only thing left to repair. The school 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
- The backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile, hidden under the water damage
- Water damage from a flooded basement, a burst pipe, a leaking roof or a damp garage, on school photos from the 1940s to 1990s
- Small faces of one child in front of a painted studio backdrop, taken each autumn that the water damage has taken the detail from
- Water-damaged school photos that a copy shop refused to touch
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 backdrop color, the collar and the gap-toothed smile in the school portrait untouched.
Stain & Spot Remover - 02
Repair the rest of the school portrait
Faded Photo Fixer addresses the usual wear on school photos, wallet-size prints traded between friends, creased, stuck to album pages and faded to orange, once the water damage is gone.
Faded Photo Fixer - 03
Upscale the school portrait for reprinting
Adds the pixels a wall print needs after the water damage repair, with the shape of the water-damaged school photos unchanged.
Image Upscaler
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