Photo Repair and Restore
Repair and restore your precious photos with the UK’s top rated and Award-Winning photo restoration services
Photo repair prices
For simplicity, I offer 3 convenient fixed-price restoration categories: Simple, Medium and Complex. For extremely large or difficult projects, a customised quote will be provided. All projects are based on how much work goes into each image. Pricing will always be confirmed with you prior to commencing any photo repair work so that you know what to expect at billing. For a full list of prices see the photo restoration prices page.
If you are still unsure which category your photo fits into, send me an email or call . I can help discuss what is possible and what results you can expect and how long your project will take.
£9 Basic restoration
- Simple fade corrections
- Contrast adjustments
- Simple dust and scratch removal
- Sharpening
- Cropping
£19 Medium restoration
- Minor fading
- Minor discolouration
- Light mould or damage
- Some hair-line fissures or cracks
£29 Complex restoration
- Deep scratch marks / multiple paper wrinkles/folds and tears
- Small to medium facial area corrections
- Medium mould damage and or fading
- Small areas missing or damaged
- Small areas of face or body missing
- Some scene rebuilding or object removing
£39+ Very complex restoration
- Fatal mistake with a shredder?
- Treasured family album damaged by fire or flood?
- Family dog chewed up your favourite photo?
- When it comes to extreme restoration challenges, I’ve got you covered!*
- Extreme restoration projects are priced on a case-by-case basis and only after acceptance of a quote




* There are rare occasions when a complete restoration is impossible or would be too time-consuming (and therefore costly) to undertake. Even if you think your photos are beyond repair, I still encourage you to submit them for a free appraisal. Photo repair miracles occur on a regular basis and I still may be able to help!
For a full list of prices see the Photo restoration prices page. For more examples of my work, see the Examples page.
Hi, I’m Neil
Photo repair artist and founder of Image Restore, based in Hampshire.
With over 1000 positive reviews and many thousands of satisfied customers, Image Restore is the UK’s top-rated photo restoration service, and award-winning photo restoration service.
Despite advances in technology, digital photo repair services remains a largely manual process and requires skill, dexterity, and patience to achieve the best results. I do not cut corners and always work to preserve the unique characteristics of your original images, while respecting the aesthetics and processing techniques of the time.
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No matter where you are in the UK, from Surrey to Somerset, Wiltshire to West Sussex or Devon or Dorset you can have you photos restored by me. Covering the whole of the UK and indeed overseas, digital files can cut that distance to seconds. With the right scan, you don’t even have to part with your originals!
How does it work?
Whether you are looking to repair a single image or restore an entire family photo album, I am here to help. Using a wide range of digital editing techniques, I can quickly and expertly restore just about any image.
For best results, I recommend sending your original images (where it is possible to work from prints, slides, or negatives in a wide range of sizes and formats). Alternatively, you can send a digital file from a scan that you have created yourself. This eliminates the extra cost, risk, and delay of sending your original prints by mail, no matter where you are in the world. Read my scanning guide to learn how to scan your images properly for best results.
In all cases, I begin by creating a high-resolution digital copy of your image which is then edited with specialised computer software, leaving your original photo unharmed. Your restored image is then sent to you as a digital file and/or a high-quality reprint, together with your original materials.
Your original images are handled with the utmost care and pricing is confirmed with you prior to commencing any work so that you know what to expect. I will provide you with a digital proof of your restored image(s) to ensure you are happy with the result prior to billing.
Still have questions? Check out the FAQ to learn more about my services or see below for examples of my work and sample pricing.
What kind of damage can be restored?
Scratches and cuts
Mounted or framed photos often get scratched when they fall off the wall and the glass breaks. The broken glass scratches the photo. If this happens to you carefully remove the glass and brush off any small bits.

Scratches and cuts restored
Photos stuck to glass

Stuck to glass restored
Folds, cracks, creases, tears
For photos with cracks or scratches, we use “healing” and “patching” tools to take information from a nearby part of the image and fill in the gaps. Even photos that have been completely torn or shredded into pieces can be put back together and restored to their original state.

Folds cracks and tears restored
Ink, paint, or drink stains
Writing on the back of photos with ink can mean it transfers to photos underneath. It is always best to use a soft pencil. Leaving photos on flat surfaces can mean they get damaged by drink stains and not everyone remembers to remove the photo when redecorating and paint splatters can ruin a photo. All of these issues can be restored but do look after your photo.! If you find this happens to you we can help.

Ink marks restored
Water and fire damage
Water damaged photos can be repaired by reconstructing stained areas and filling in the details. Other reference photos can be useful for a successful restore. See this blog post on how we restore water damaged photos. No one can predict when a fire can happen but if it does and your precious memories get damaged we can help. Smoke and burn marks can be fixed and restored in a similar way to water-damaged photos.

Water damaged photos restored
Flaked emulsion
Old board based photos are very sensitive to moisture damage. If after exposure to water they are left to dry out in excessive heat the emulsion or surface of the photo can simply flake off. Photo restoration can help restore flaked emulsion.

Flaked emulsion restored
Light leakage

Light leak restoration
Faded colours
Badly faded photos can be restored by painting in shadows and highlights to increase contrast. In extreme cases, we may first restore the image to a good black and white condition and then rebuild the colour by manually painting in multiple tinted layers over different parts of the image.

Faded colours restored
Tape marks
Sellotape seemed like a miracle invention for sticking a photo back together. With age, it leaves crackly, brittle, yellow-brown sellophane on your photos.

Restoring tape marks
Silvering
Very old black and white images can suffer from “Silvering”. This is where the silver nitrate in the developer shows on the surface of dark areas as a shiny blue tint, sometimes obscuring the details. This can be fixed in most cases.

Silvering restoration
Missing fragments
For photos with missing pieces, we can either recreate those pieces from existing parts of the image, use another image as a donor, or redraw the details back in manually.

Missing pieces restored
Wrinkled slides or negatives

Wrinkled negatives restored
Damaged Daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypes are special photos indeed. They are fragile and normally come with their own case. Even this protective case can become compromised and cause the image to deteriorate. We can fix damaged Daguerreotypes

Daguerreotype restored
Tainted tintypes
Photos made on tin are called TinTypes and still exist today. If you have one that is bent or scratched, we can fix it using digital techniques.

Tintype restoration