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Here you can find the following information...

• Introduction
• Improving your photos
• The Restoration process
• Photograph repair, fixes and adjustments
• Full COLOUR Reproduction
• Other Services

Photo enhancement and photo restoration In time most old photographs colour will shift and fade with age even if carefully looked after. The lighter areas of black and white photos will start to yellow and old colour photos often have a red or orange cast. Have a close look at your cherished family photos, you may find that they are fading away. Old photographs alloId to deteriorate in this way will lose detail and eventually fade away altogether. Using modern digital photo restoration methods I can produce a restored version of the photograph.

Improvements to the original and photo editing Most families have photographs of a family ancestor or landscape where the horizon is not straight or there is a person or stranger in the background spoiling the picture. Maybe the photograph would be better in a smaller or larger size. Perhaps it just needs cropping to re-compose the picture. This type of fault can now be fixed. Photo restoration can produce a picture for framing from a snapshot.

Digital Photo Restoration Photo enhancement and photo repair usually involves adjusting or fixing some of the items listed below to obtain a high quality restored image. The original photograph is used to provide a scanned copy on which the work is carried out. The original will be carefully returned, untouched in the condition in which it was supplied.

Photograph repair, fixes and adjustments • Brightness • Contrast • Sharpness • Colour Shift • Saturation • Red Eye • Cropping • Dust • Scratches • Mildew spots • Stains • Fading • Missing Areas • Tears & Rips

Full Colour Reproduction It is now possible to have your old black and white photos reproduced in full colour. It is difficult to describe the difference this makes to old faded photos. All that’s need is a description of the subject place or person and I do the rest. This is our most popular service and when you see the results you will know why.

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Other Services Colour Tinting

Black and White or Sepia pictures can be tinted if required. This service will usually be suited to portraits or photographs of two or three people. If possible you should indicate colours to be used.

Reprints / Extra Prints

Copies of restored photos are retained in our records and you can request extra prints at any time.

Restored photographs on CD or DVD

Your restored pictures can be saved to CD or DVD for viewing or printing on your own PC. Image files suitable for e-mail can be provided. Please state what file type you prefer, I suggest TIFF but other file types can be used.

Archive Services

Your priceless photos can be archived. I can copy slides, negatives, photo collections and photo albums or loose prints to CD or DVD for your genealogy project. They will normally be archived without restoration other than adjustments to Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness, Colour shift and Saturation.

Prints from CD or DVD

I can provide high quality prints from your CD’s or DVD’s on Photo paper.

Panoramic Prints

Panoramic photographs can be restored and printed. The cost will depend on the amount of restoration required and the size of the print.

Photo Collages or Montages

You provide the pictures and describe your requirements I will produce ideas and proofs. Up to 10 photos can be placed on a sheet of photo paper at A4 size and many more on a sheet up to 24”X 36” in full gloss or satin. Text can be added if required.

Artwork produced from your own pictures

I can design a unique piece of artwork using your pictures in any size up to 24”X 36” in full gloss or satin. Various treatments can be applied to give the look of oil paintings and water colours etc.

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