Photo restoration skills used for photo retouching
If you are not after photo restoration perhaps its photo retouching instead? The skills of a Photoshop artist should not just be limited to restoration of old photos, but everything. This helps the...
View ArticleBleached colour repair and restore
Photos that I restore the most are be those that have faded. Simple fades are simple to correct. Just a quick adjustment of the levels or a quick burn in with dodge and burn tools. Complex fades like...
View ArticleCricketing nostalgia where is this?
Some photo restoration projects take longer than others. This cricketing photo in the United Kingdom took longer than most but where is it? Can you help me identify where in the UK this is? My skills...
View ArticleWest Surrey Family History Society Open Day 2012
Image-restore helping historians and genealogists with restoring photos will be attending the West Surrey Family History Society Open Day 2012 on November the 3rd at Woking Leisure center. Details...
View ArticleHow not to restore photos
How not to restore photos… Occasionally I speak my mind and shake things up a bit and today is one of those days. Whilst researching other photo restoration companies and there are many! I have...
View ArticleMemories are important as the photos themselves
During my chosen educational path, I chose photography. It was something i thought I was good at. My first camera was at around 14 or 15 when I bought a Minolta 35mm SLR. I took loads of images with...
View ArticleRestore a major colour fade – (image)
An example of photo restoration For more on hand colouring and see our photograph colouring tutorial
View ArticlePhoto restoration equipment
So what do think you need to get by in photo restoration? For ages I thought I had what I needed to do my job, I had a computer and a scanner that’s all you need right? Well that’s what I thought … ....
View ArticlePhoto retouching replacing a background
This article is not about the actual technique used to replace the background but the complications that comes with the idea in the first place. . It always makes me chuckle a little inside when...
View ArticleUsing patch versus content aware patch
I just spotted a video on Lynda.com, a very reliable on line resource for learning. It describes using the “patch” tool as a useful tool for repairing scratches, tears and damage. . There is no doubt...
View ArticleOld Photographic Glass Plates
From time to time i get some interesting photos to restore. Wednesday I took a delivery of some old photographic glass plates. They came in these lovely boxes. Two sizes of plates 5×4 inches and 7×5...
View Article1902 Toledo Steam Carriage on 871 Mile journey
. Here are two restored photos from a batch, telling the amazing story of a Toledo Steam Carriage on 871 Mile journey! . 1902 Newspaper Article reads . 1902 Feb: “C.E. De Long, of Hot Springs, Ark.,...
View ArticleRare Daguerreotype discovered of young Abraham Lincoln
Could this be a new discovery of an original Daguerreotype of the young Abraham Lincoln? . A newly discovered Daguerreotype was found by Justin Whiting of, Norwich Norfolk United Kingdom, could be a...
View ArticlePhotographic glass plates Indian hunting trip
Just some nice old photographic plates described a few blog posts ago “old photographic glass plates” I now have the permission to show you what was in those boxes! The hunting trip: If you had the...
View ArticleOld photo restoration recent trends
I know that many of your are just reading this blog for a snippet of help so you can restore your old photos yourself, fair play, we all do research! It’s important to research both the techniques and...
View ArticleOld wedding photo restoration in colour
Colouring an old wedding photo . A few days ago Barrie Warby contacted me with a plea to help him fix up his mothers photo. Unfortunately it was stuck to glass and heavily faded. He posted me his...
View ArticleWW1 a glimpse into the past
. WW1 was a war with many battles over many countries. There are thousands of individual stories to be told. These are just a few images from one mans story. . Mr Driver served in many campaigns during...
View ArticleClarissa Harlow Barton 1865 in colour (Clara)
. I found this very high resolution image of Clara Barton and could not resist colouring it. I produced a quick illustration to show the colours I applied and what order. There are 3 shades of green in...
View Articleold photos in colour
Old photos in colour, ruins or revives? . The school is out whether colouring photos make them better or make them worse. It is my view the scene that would have been captured, would have been in...
View ArticleHistoric photos should sepia or black and white or colour?
“It is the modern age, we are all aware of colour, why look on the past with a sepia tinged fog? lets colour it like it should be, vibrant and fun!” All of our Homo sapien lives we have lived life in...
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