How to Separate Sticky Photos Safely

Did you ever have some water spill on some photograph and cause them to stick together? This can be a very upsetting problem especially if the photos are very important or valuable to you. You could be looking at some photos with a cup of coffee and accidentally spill the liquid on the photos. Then the photographs get stuck together and you can't get the photos apart from each other without causing them to be ruined.

You try to be careful but accidents happen to the best of us. And if you take the pictures and try to pull them apart the ink with run together and you will have a blotched up mess. If you find some photos that are stuck together don't throw them out right away. You can to get them separated from each other first. The procedure is easy and uncomplicated. All you need to try to get the photos apart is a freezer and some of your time. If the photos are precious it can be very worth while.

Take the stuck together photographs and stick them in the freezer for about twenty minutes. After twenty minutes are up take the photos out of the freezer and immediately try to gently pull the photos apart. Be very gentle as you try to pull the pictures away from each other.

If you can't get the pictures to come apart then put the pictures back into the freezer for awhile and let them freeze real good. Then take the pictures out and try it again. If the pictures that are stuck together don't come apart clean and easy you can try to redo this procedure as many times as you have the patience to do it.

When the stuck together photos freeze the freezing process will sometimes separated the inks and the ink will naturally go back to the photo it was originally on. But if the photos are stuck together too well the ink will mix together so well that the freezing process will not separate the two pictures.

Freezing stuck photos to get them apart can have a good effect. Sometimes it will work well and your pictures will come apart and look as good as ever. Sometimes your pictures will not come apart and you will have to throw the pictures out in the trash but it is a simple thing to do and worth a try to save your wet photographs.