Photo Restoration Blog

You have probably at some stage deleted some digital files from your camera memory card. Fear not they may be recoverable if you have not performed any further camera to card actions. The best thing about this is it will cost you nothing to recover them either!

PC Inspector.de is FreeWare. I personally have been using it to recover my deleted files for many years and thought I should share it with you. The software is called PCInspector but it also recovers or restores your photos from your memory card too. At the time I was using it allot, I was working at a digital camera company where this was a regular fix. The great thing is it restored photos just as many times, if not more than the leading, paid for software!

Don’t pay get it free!

NOTE: I do not offer technical support for this photo restoration software so please don’t email me about it. If the embedded link fails then visit pcinspector.de directly.

Don’t forget to wander round the rest of the blog for other photo repair and restoration tips.

Hello everyone, continuing with the basic skills photo restoration tutorials, I have another here which touches upon matching the grain within a photo when replacing a background. You can read more about this topic in the matching grain blog post.

Remember though only replace the background if you have to! The original one restored, will look far more convincing than one you made up yourself.

This is not a photo restoration post today but just an apology for any downtime.

Sorry if  any of  you have noticed some downtime I have just updated my wordpress to the latest version via the 2.3.3 to 2.5.1 to 2.9.1 route.

I also  hope to be changing the theme to the one column so that my tutorial videos fit in the page better.

See you all back soon for another post, maybe even another photo restoration video tutorial!

Neil

EDIT: I have now had a theme change to reflect a more modern look and to fit my videos in the page. I have tried to keep it as similar as possible.

Hello everyone,

I will be making some short, basic skills, video tutorials of some of my photo restoration techniques. This should make it easier to see how these photo restoration techniques are done and easier to learn.

I am learning the new software and my microphone is arriving soon, stay tuned.

See you back here soon! Ok its here, sorry the sound is a bit quiet but hopefully I can resolve this on the next tutorial or revisit this one tomorrow..

If you want to read a written post on the importance of selection you can at this link. Photo restoration and the importance of selection.

Neil

Air brushing in photo restoration? Don’t Do It!

Does air brushing have a place is photo restoration? Personally, they do not go together. Photos and airbrushing are from different time periods, air brushing is a relatively modern technique whether it is done with an electronic or traditional airbrush. Every photo has a character made up from the grain within the photo, the texture of the paper,  and the aged look after years of handling. Don’t expect me to airbrush over this and take away what history has provided.

Many eastern restoration artists use this technique as a short cut to removing or covering up damage within the photo. 

Once this smooth finish is applied to part of a photo there are two directions the restoration can go. The first is more air brushing to ‘improve’ other damaged sections, thus the whole photo takes on a smoothed artificial look or the second where the initial airbrushing has the original photo texture and grain matched in to blend it seamlessly and thus keeping the character and correct historical feel. Which would you prefer?

Order a restoration from a dot.com site and the likely-hood it is based outside this country and most likely of eastern origin. Make sure you examine the website before and after photos and it will soon become evident whether the airbrushing has been heavily used. If their samples are too small to see what is going on it is likely they have something to hide. If you would like your photos to be accurately restored and not modernised and plasticised then stick with someone who cares about photo restoration, like us!

Image-restore.co.uk photo restoration with care. A place where your photos are truly restored, retouched and revived.

I managed a second place on pxleyes today! See me, photo restoraion man on pxleyes.com.

Im chuffed to get a second, keep up the good work image restore!