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Turn the towel with each blot to keep from reapplying the removed paint. Immediately blot with a soft cloth or paper towel.Blot the cotton swab onto the White Out.Moisten a cotton swab with a small amount of mineral spirits or paint thinner.Do NOT use this method with antique or fragile photos. However, this can damage the surface of the photo and should be used with great caution. If white out can’t be scraped off and won’t crumble when rolled, there is a last resort removal step.Keep the razor as flat as possible so as not to damage or cut the photo. Carefully run the razor blade across the surface of the picture.If the white out remains, you may be able to scrape it off gently with a razor blade.Brush any crumbled white out off with a soft cloth.

Sometimes as the paper rolls, the white out will crumble and break off. If the photo can’t tolerate the cleaning steps without becoming damaged, it may be worth it to keep the White Out in place to preserve the photo. Once the paint is removed, there is no need to continue on with the rest of the steps. Here are a few steps that can be taken, but use caution and watch the photo carefully to keep it from becoming damaged. White Out is similar to paint and can be difficult to remove from delicate photo surfaces. The wax will have melted and transferred to the cloth or paper bag. Do not allow the iron to touch the photo directly.

Apply the iron on top of the cloth or paper bag.

Cover the wax markings on the picture with a soft cloth or brown paper bag.If the marks are not removed with the soft cloth, you could try to remove them with normal wax removal techniques.Start by gently rubbing the wax marks with a soft cloth or paper towel.Here are a few methods to remove the wax markings as well as any white out that was used for touch ups. They work well because they are easy to remove from the photo’s surface. Wax pencils are commonly used to crop photos both for publication as well as to mark for trimming during scrapbooking projects. I have heard that baby wipes will remove wax pencil marks, but I’m hesitant to try it on these really great photos. Some have black wax crop marks and some have what looks like white out on them, apparently to remove shadows on the original photo. Glenn asked: Is there a way of removing wax pencil crop marks from old photos? I recently purchased some old photos from the archives of a local paper.