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Photo Restoration & Repair
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 Do you have old treasured photos that are damaged, faded, torn, creased or stained? We can help restore them to something resembling their previous glory...
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Colorize or Tint Your Photos |
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 Our colorizing process takes a black and white photo and painstakingly hand tints it to produce a beautiful colour copy while retaining the charm of the original...
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Photo Manipulation |
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 Ever had a photo and wished the background was different? or that stranger walking past in the background wasn't there? You can even combine two photos to form a new photo...
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Photo Enhancement
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 There's not a picture taken that cannot be improved in some way. Our enhancement service will take as many photos as you want and get the best of them through professional cropping and colour correction...
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Your photos are prescious to you and are therefore precious to us. Your original will be unaltered and returned in the same condition as it is supplied to us. If you are concerned at all about the service we offer then please contact us and we will set your mind at ease |
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Preservation Is Better Than CureCome the day we see the photograph in print and hold it in our hand it looks like something that should last forever. But looks are deceptive. Even modern photographs will not last for more than 20 years or so withot fade, and while black and white photos last longer they will, eventually, fall foul of any number of enemies, in the form of a hostile environment or nature's worst. While a photo restoration service is a remedy for those that have already fallen, a little knowledge today can delay catastophe tomorrow. Know your enemy! High temperature and relative humidity >> Photographs are basically organic, and thus are susceptible to moulds and such like, especially if they are subjected to the twin evils of moisture and heat. Store your photos in a cool, dry place. Aim for a temperature lower than 68 deg. Fahrenheit and with humidity of below 50%. Ultraviolet Light >> Old colour photos fade rapidly. If out on display then twice so. If you can, try to keep your photos out of direct sunlight. If you have to display it then make sure that the glass in your photo frame will protect it from ultraviolet light. Bring the original to us and have us make a copy print, archive it to CD or supply you the digital file. And our photographic prints with Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks will outlive us all, even without UV protection. Adhesives and Rubber >> Sticky-back photo albums... blahhh... rubber cement, equally so. In fact most glues and rubber products contain harmful chemicals that will harm your photos. So don't use them. Air? Yes, really! >> Fumes from cleaning products and paint can damage your photographs. Try to avoid over-exposure.I Heavy Metal - will damage more than just your ears >> Metallic objects such as keys and paper clips can scratch the surfaces of your prints and negatives. Don’t clip your photos together and don't store them with metal objects. Light at the end of the tunnel So, when all is said and done, a photograph is by it's very nature, temporary, and preserving it seems like hard work. But if you store or display your photographs with care and thought, they will, literally, last a lifetime. Store your Photographs in a Cool and Dry Place Attics and loft-spaces are the wrong places to store your photographs. The extreme temperature and humidity swings in your attic will make your photographic paper split and crack. Find a cool and dry area of your home where the temperature is fairly constant. Hang and be damned Is only right that you will want to have your favourite photos on display. Take a few precautions though and you can avoid the 'shop window fade' common to most high streets. Hang your photo out of direct sunlight. If you must hang in in direct sunlight then either buy a filter to protect it or have a copy made and hang that, keeping the original safe. Binary your finery and preserve them forever The ideal way to preserve your valuable photographs is by saving them all digitally - thus removing the paper altogether. Have your photos scanned and saved onto CD and they should last for several life-times and beyond. Still take precautions though - make back up copies of the CD; store them on your PC or on a internet storage facility. And with your photos already digitatised you can create an online album that the whole world can appreciate - or just your close friends if your a more private person! Photo Restoration - how it can help Using digital technology, the professional photo restoration artists at Photores work not with your original photograph, but with a digital copy. Using the latest software and working at pixel depth they carefully repair the damage. The final restored image is then either reprinted on quality photographic paper with the highest quality inks and printers, saved on CD for delivery digitally, or emailed to you for you to print. Thus your photo has a new lease of life and will give you pleasure for decades to come. Value for money So if disaster strikes, whether in the form of nature or human hand, there is hope. Photo restoration is today both affordable and accessible. Act today to preserve for tomorrow. For information on how we can help you please telephone Mark on 01603 431274 or email enquiries@photores.co.uk |
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