Clapton Football Club and Essex County Cricket Club circa (late) 1890’s
Restorations performed in July 2008
Opportunities like this don’t come around too often. I had the honour to restore historic images from the late 1890’s of both these prestigious teams. Clapton Football Club were one of, if not the best team in the country at the […]
Ed. Can you explain the cost of a photo restoration?
Neil. Certainly, but don’t think of it as cost, think of it as investment. You are preserving your memories. Price should be a concern, yes, but not the primary one. You have made the decision that your photo needs restoring, so I am here to […]
There are many way to change a photo’s tint using photoshop. I have made this short tutorial to show you how to change a photo from black and white to sepia using three different methods, each with similar results but with subtle differences.
We can use this image as a test image.
Method 1. Change your photo to RGB mode . Select […]
I have here an example of a photo restoration, (removing a person) that if not correctly restored a simple brightness adjustment would reveal some very shoddy work indeed, I will explain.
Lets have a look at this photo of some handsome college chaps on a night out with their partners. A request was made […]
I have just made some scans of random images from the old album to illustrate some of the points made in my previous post.
“Family in the doorway”, is an example of where the scanning light reflects on the silver within the print and glares back as a bluish tint, upper left. (The silver was used […]
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 […]