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Add Natural Lifelike Colour to Your Photographs

Imagine seeing an old black-and-white photograph in a whole new way – brought to life in full colour. The past suddenly feels closer, the details more vivid, and the memories more real.

With our professional photo colourisation service, we can carefully restore and add natural, lifelike colour to your treasured photographs. Whether it’s a portrait of a loved one, a family gathering, or a piece of history, colourisation gives a new perspective to the moments that matter.

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Why Colourise Your Photos?

✔ See details you’ve never noticed before
✔ Make your family history feel more real and connected
✔ Create a unique and meaningful gift for loved ones

Simply send us your photo, and we’ll take care of the rest.

The Magic of Photograph Restoration – and a Perfect Gift

As a family, we know just how hard it can be to find unique gift ideas each year. That’s why we want to remind you of the magic of photo restoration and colourisation. Every photo collection holds the power to transport us back to meaningful moments in time…

Behind every photo is someone who chose to capture that moment. We’re here to restore those moments, so you can enjoy them as they were meant to be.

Unfortunately, physical photos deteriorate over time, and because it happens gradually, we often don’t notice until the damage is severe…

Whether it’s a wedding day or a loved one who’s no longer with us, photos bring a flood of emotions. This connection to family, friends, pets, and places, and the chance to relive special moments, is truly priceless.

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Choosing which photos to restore can be daunting, especially for someone else. Our Gift Vouchers make it simple – available in any value and valid for any of our services. Let your loved one decide which photos to restore, while you give a meaningful gift without the stress.

Gift Voucher

 

Photographs Forever – Remembrance Day Interview on BBC Morning Live

 

BBC Morning Live asked Photographs Forever to appear in their Remembrance Day broadcast.

CLICK HERE to see our founder Richard discussing the importance of restoring your photographs. Watch to see our customer Nigel’s reaction to seeing his grandfather’s photo in full colour for the first time.

Here are some more good reasons to get those precious photographs restored:

Preserve Irreplaceable Memories: Old photographs often hold priceless memories of loved ones and significant moments. Restoring them ensures these special memories are kept alive and passed down through generations.

Protect Against Further Damage: Time can be harsh on photographs, causing fading, tears, and discoloration. Restoring them now helps prevent further deterioration and protects them for the future.

Reconnect with Your Family’s Story: Restored photos help keep family history vivid and relatable. They bring stories to life and make it easier for younger generations to connect with their heritage.

Celebrate and Share Special Moments: Bringing photos back to their original glory lets you display them proudly in your home or create gifts that can be shared with family and friends.

Create Lasting Legacies: Restoring and identifying people in your photos ensures that stories and names don’t get lost over time. It’s a beautiful way to honor the past and keep loved ones’ legacies alive.

Enhance Visual Quality: Restoration can bring out details that were previously hard to see, adding clarity and depth to treasured images and allowing you to appreciate them in their full beauty.

Digital Safeguards: Restored photos can be digitized, making it easier to store, share, and back them up so they’re safe from accidents or damage to physical prints.

 

Identify The Date Your Photograph Was Taken

We quite often are asked to date photographs that we receive.

This is a specialist skill and the person to talk to is Jayne Shrimpton.

Jayne Shrimpton offers a professional service dating and interpreting photographs and artworks for family historians; local history and genealogy groups; historical and art institutions and TV production companies. Jayne’s formal visual training and experience of working across all artistic and photographic media, combined with her extensive fashion history knowledge, has given her a unique skillset, ideal for successfully interpreting historical images. After decades of advising family and local historians and academic researchers, she understands the importance of time and place and can explain each photograph, painting, drawing and silhouette, revealing its historical context.

For more information click here to go to Jayne Shrimpton’s website.

 

Colourisation For Channel 4 Titanic Documentary

Production Company Woodcut Media asked Photographs Forever to colourise historic photographs of the construction, launch and life on board the Titanic.

“It’s a story often told in black and white. Now we reveal the ship in its true colours,” says narrator Tracy-Ann Oberman

The Daily Mail previewed the program

‘Incredible new colourised photographs have given an insight into what life was really like on the Titanic.

New Channel 4 documentary Titanic In Colour is airing 4th August, bringing life into the stories of the passengers onboard the famously doomed ship.

The RMS Titanic famously sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 15 April, 1912, with an estimated 2,224 people onboard.

The ‘unsinkable’ ship  hit an iceberg just before midnight and as there were only 20 lifeboats onboard, 1,500 people lost their lives.

In the programme, relatives of those onboard tell their untold stories, while colourised photos and film footage gives a unique insight into daily life on the superliner.’

THE DOCUMENTARY CAN BE WATCHED AGAIN VIA THIS LINK

 

Reigate & Banstead Mayors Have Been Restored!

We were asked by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council to restore 49 faded framed portraits of their Mayors going back many years. This involved removing the existing photographs from their frames, scanning and digitally restoring each one as well as reintroducing all the red and gold elements of many.  Here is just one of the worse ones showing before and after our restoration.

Photographs Forever Before and After

When all 49 were fully restored we printed them all on archive grade paper (so the fading will no longer be an issue going forward) and replaced them in their original frames.  Here they are safely reinstalled and being regularly enjoyed by all visitors the the Town Hall.

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April 2024 – 20% off Digital Colourisation

For this month only (April 2024) we are offering a 20% discount on digital colourisation.

We all understand the power a photograph can have to transport us back to moments filled with laughter, love, and nostalgia, and whilst black & white photos are fantastic, sometimes a vibrant colour photograph can make all the difference.

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Global Manufacturing Business Image Restoration and Colourisation

We were approached by a global manufacturing company to restore and colourise over 40 historic images they have of their company which they want to display in an forthcoming exhibition.

We get increasing numbers of enquiries to create bespoke images for all sorts of end use.

Here are several examples of the photos that we restored and colourised for them to bring to life the company’s early history.

 

Ferrari 275 Photograph Restoration and Colourise

We recently restored this photograph of the very handsome Ferrari 275 built around 1966. 

Our customer Claire H says ‘the results were absolutely fabulous, top notch!’

Do you have an important photograph that is looking a bit the worse for wear? Get in touch now!