Restored Treasures: Photo Retouching and Photo Restoration Services - Restoration Photo Retouching and Enhancement of Family Pictures

REPAIRING SEVERE DAMAGE

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Some Recent Examples

This was an interesting project because the image was extremely small -- it was
inside a locket. While still lacking a bit of detail, it prints well even at 4x6.

This was my first photo restoration project - my great grandmother. Looking back at it now, I can
see several areas I would like to rework, but it does demonstrate cracks, tape, tears, fading, poor
shadows in the original image, etc.

Here's an image that had portions of the photo missing, cracks, tears, color crayon, chalk, ink pen,
and [I believe] lipstick. I considered adding colorization like the original, but chose natural b&w.

These are interesting because after I restored the originals, I realized they could be pieced together into one larger image.

You can see that the biggest problem in image 1 was the fading. Until I adjusted that, I didn't even notice
the lady standing in the doorway next to the sign.

Then I restored this image (again, mostly adjusted for brightness, contrast, and levels) and noticed the same lady.

I pieced the two images together and used sidewalk from the left side to fill in the right. Notice the boots
the young man on the right is wearing come from the little boy on the left... as do the boots on the little girl.

These tiny pictures (nearly locket-sized) were actually cut out and put into tiny frames.

My first step was to restore the image (repairing cracks, tears and fades). I then smoothed the edges.
Next, I used the shoulders of another pictures for the gentleman. Then I added a photographic background.

Finally, I put the couple into a photo together.