services for your old or damaged photos
Photo Restoration & Repair
 
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...
Colorize or Tint Your Photos
 
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...
Photo Manipulation
 
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...
Photo Enhancement
 
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...

 

 

who are photores, professional photo restorers in norwich, norfolk
Photores are photo restoration professionals based in Norwich, Norfolk, UK. With over 20 years' experience in the reprographics industry and with a decade of experience using high-end industry standard photo restoration software and techniques you can be assured of a professional result that will last for decades.
graphic design, web design, logos, stationery, dtp, word processing, proofreading, and much more from West Wending Digital
 

West Wending Digital offer a comprehensive digital service to businesses, societies and individuals. Whether it's graphically designing logos, stationery, brochures, flyers, leaflets or business cards, or designing a website or graphics for the internet, they are the professionals.

Amongst the services they provide are:

  • Graphic Design
  • Web Site Design
  • Desktop Publishing
  • Word Processing
  • Copywriting
  • Proofreading

For all of these services and more visit their website by clicking here

 
customer care from the norwich photo restoration professionals

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

 
 
Preservation Is Better Than Cure

Come 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