Photos start life fresh out of the lab or printer, from here their journey is unknown. Usually found displayed proudly above the fireplace but can be lost in a damp basement. Perhaps stuffed in a wallet or hidden behind a chimney breast for 100 years! A photo...
What Photo Restoration Services do you provide and what does it mean? Photo Restoration services covered. I define my photo restoration services as “the restoration of a photo in digital form”. If it can be made digital with a good crisp, high-resolution...
Have you looked at your old photos? Are they old and torn? do they make you sad? Let us look at some photo restorations and 10 reasons why you need one. 1. Feel good At the end of the year, hundreds of you get photos restored for presents and what a great gift idea...
I got a call from a client who wanted their mouldy wedding photos restored. I didn’t know they were mouldy but only “water damaged”. When the UPS box arrived I opened it up and unpacked the album to a cloud of green mould. No joke! I rushed outside...
If exposed to floods you’ll need to know how to restore water damaged photos, to save your precious photographic memories. In the event your house has been exposed to a flood or water disaster there are things you can do to help stop the water damage. After this...
This post looks at the Royal Flying Corps Egypt rare insight into Desert accidents. Life at the Royal Flying Corps Egypt training schools would have been close to the edge, on the ground or in the air, where everyone would have given their all. A grandfather of a...
The London to Brighton is a historic cycle race well known today. The race was made official in 1976. Its beginnings date back to February 17th 1869. Information surrounding the event is quite scarce and not easy to find. What I have learned I have written below. The...
Over the last 10 years, I have seen all kinds of damaged images and performed some particularly tricky restorations. This post is a roundup of my favourite 10 Amazing Photo Restorations over the last 10 years. Some, with great back stories, some that just have...
One of my customers reached out to me and wanted a WW1 Biplane Fighter Pilot Restoration of his late grandfather from WW1 . “I know little about my grandfather and any relatives who might have known something are long gone. One of the men in the picture is my...
The process of photo restoration start to finish, has many steps. The process of photo restoration start to finish, has many steps. All of those steps are covered on this blog but not all in one place. Let us take a look to get you started and on the right path to a...
So old and damaged I nearly turned the job down. In fact, other companies had done so! Sometimes I take a look at a photo my initial thoughts are, “no way I am not fixing that”. This was one of those images. It had been with the client some time and was...
Restoring hair in old photos is something you will come across a lot. The tops of heads go missing due to damage, from water or wear and tear and so does the hair. This post is a quick look at how best to restore it. Depending on the severity of the damage and the...
