I can now show you some old photo examples in from this wonderful old album, there are some treasures in here. It contains postcard style prints from photographic studios in the 1920’s, smaller more modern prints on thinner, fragile paper. Some are sepia toned and others just plain black and white.
The chemicals used to develop […]
Coming up soon… In future blog posts I will be looking into this album.
I am going to see what restoration nightmares are in here. I will be talking about how it is not always good to have a silver lining or at least where certain photos are concerned and a look at photo studios of […]
When you get a photo as bad as this, it is seriously tempting to let a quality photo restoration service do it for you. But if you were to tackle this one it might be easiest to airbrush a new back ground or cheat by tightly cropping the photo so there is less work to […]
If ever you look into having a photo restoration done, how do you know that you are going to have it done properly? You can look at the site that offers the restoration and look at their example images of “before” and “after” and surely if it looks good then that’s all there is […]
Firstly it’s a good idea to de-saturate or grey-scale the image before starting. If you wish to end up with a sepia tone at the end, then we can apply a photo filter to colourise the image when we have finished.
Let’s look at what we have to do. Invent a window and rebuild the boards […]
Ok so have the images restored and they look great but they are a little flat in tone.
A great trick for enhancing the blacks and making a great contrast to the highlights is to add a separate adjustment layer for colour balance. Convert your image to RGB
In this layer adjust the shadows so that they […]
Photo Restoration - Tackling Underwater Images
You arrived back from the scuba diving holiday of a lifetime and … oh your photos are not what you thought, blue wishy-washy, lacking in punch and clarity. Sadly this is a property of water, it has the unfortunate ability to filter out the red spectrum of light and […]
A useful tool in any photo restoration is the vanishing point tool. Good for any perspective based restoration. Examples where to use this tool are for use with buildings or car parks, roads, paving, or windows, etc. In Photoshop CS2 / CS3 it is found under Filter/vanishing point form the top menu.
Basically it […]
Restoring any photo should be pleasure not a chore. If a water damaged photo should need restoring, perhaps one recovered from a flood or a rainy camping trip then provided it is dry it can be scanned and restored like any other damaged photo. Of course the extent of damage may mean you have to […]
Instant makeovers, years taken off, digital plastic surgery, its all possible but just how far do you go?
Facial restorations involving removing wrinkles, reducing pores, retouching eyes, removing blemishes etc. should be done with discretion. Its very tempting to attack the image with gusto sweeping away all evidence of anything natural and end up with a […]
Photo Restorations are essential
“Oh gee, I guess I’d better get this restored it’s looking tatty” - No, no, no! Photo restorations are way more important than that, they are essential, they may seem trivial at the time, but you are preserving an important part of family history, your family will have to continue on the […]
Due to a recent spate of thoughtlessness i managed to delete this post so i have now re-posted it , slightly revised as its written from scratch
When carrying out photo restoration and restoring an old photograph quite often pieces of it need to be patched up and healed or cloned. To do this you may […]
Photo Restoration
In this example I will describe some of the processes involved in restoring a badly damaged photograph which has been torn, creased and stuck with tape. Bits of the photo are missing and will need to be replaced and restored.
The Jigsaw. Firstly I cut out all pieces and pasted onto new canvas and […]
Photo Restoration. Advanced Techniques - A natural eye and restoring without adding perceived artistic merit.
Sorry about the lengthy title but I could find anything more catchy!
Ok so you can use a computer and you can use Photoshop, and you can have a good go at restoring a photo, but does this mean you are a […]