What this edit solves
Some old prints are past a simple clean-up. In this wedding photo, deep cracks run across the groom's suit and the wall behind him, creases cut through the veil and dress, patches of paper have flaked away, and the whole print is scratched and speckled. Repairing that much damage means rebuilding the parts that are gone, not only retouching what is left.
Who needs it
- Families whose grandparents' wedding photo sat in a box or an attic for decades
- Anyone preparing a framed print or a memorial slideshow from one fragile original
- People whose only copy is badly scratched, creased or partly missing
How the edit works and where it stops
A human editor, with AI tools assisting where they help, removes the cracks, creases and scratches, then rebuilds the missing areas from the surrounding picture: the suit's fabric, the veil's folds, the wooden wall and the light on the skin. The two faces are matched to the scan, so the couple still looks like themselves. The colors in this example are a careful estimate, not a record of the real day: skin, hair, flowers and wood are tinted to look natural, and you can choose to keep the repair in black and white instead.
Rebuilt areas are an informed reconstruction. When a face, a hand or a pattern was lost entirely, we say so before starting, and a second photo of the same person from around the same time helps a lot.
The whole edit takes about 40 minutes, and one credit covers up to 20 minutes on a photo, so this edit is 2 credits.
What to upload
Send the damaged print as a flatbed scan or a sharp, evenly lit photo of the original, never a screenshot, at full size. Keep any loose pieces. If a face is badly damaged, add another photo of that person as a reference. For lighter damage, see restoring a damaged photo.
Photos
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wedding.tif
1 credit ($8)
1 photo to edit
Instructions
This old wedding photo is badly scratched and part of it is missing. Can you rebuild it and add color?
Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos
The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.
