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Photo Repair

At Photographs Forever we provide a personal, reliable and top quality photo repair, photo restoration, photo retouching, and photo editing service that will restore the life back into your photographs. You will receive a service that you can trust and one that is realistically priced. We are passionate about all aspects of the work we undertake and truly want you to get the most satisfaction out of your precious photographs, secure in the knowledge that they will last forever…

We preserve your family history. With the advances in technology, it’s possible to repair, edit, enhance and save your images in digital files which you can share with other family members and friends, electronically. Too often, important photographs are never seen, being stored away in a box somewhere or buried inside a mobile phone more recently!  Photographs are your best memories.

Preservation of Your Originals
A primary benefit is the preservation of your originals. In the case of deteriorating photographs, time is important. Professional photo repair can prevent  further damage to the original mattering so much even if it does occur.

Eliminate Scratches, Folds, Tears and Fading
You may be able to digitally scan and repair old photographs yourself using certain programs. You may find online tutorials and software to help you when repairing old photos but, for the best outcome, you should look at calling in the experts. Look out your old photos, historic photographs, family photographs, faded photographs, torn photographs, creased photographs, photographs that need repairing, photographs that need restoring and get your photographs repaired now.

Add Sepia or Full Colour to Black and White Photographs
When repairing old photos, we can add a natural sepia to old black and white photos so all your restored images match each other. We can even transform your images to full colour. Professional restoration, repair and editing techniques can add clearer focus or sharpness, besides adding realistic shades to the images.

Electronic Storage and Ease of Sharing
Repairing old photos allows you to convert them to digital images, which are easy to store and share with friends or family. With advances in technology, it’s possible to take an entire photo collection and store it on CD, DVD or memory stick. This can be a convenient way to retrieve a particular group of photographs or safely secure an additional copy, which will last virtually indefinitely. You can share digital copies through email or print as many copies as you need.

Genealogical Benefits
For historians, the benefits of repairing old photos is often considered priceless. The genealogical benefits are important to anybody trying to build a family tree. Expert restoration techniques should be used on any historically-significant photographs.

What do our restoration and retouching services include?

Our photograph restoration services include; Repairing tears and creases, removing folds, scanning and restoring photos stuck to glass, replacement of backgrounds,  restoration of wedding photos, correcting colour balance, restoring faded images, restoring digital photos, digitally removing mould damage, scanning and restoring negatives and slides as well as prints, creating enlargements or scanning only.

Our photograph retouching services include; Removing unwanted parts of photographs, adding to photographs parts of other photographs, retouching faces, recomposing the important elements of photographs, repairing poor digital prints, as well as combining different photographs.

You may not realise there is a problem until you take a look at your photo collection after many years of storage. Our precious photo collections are in fact fading away and in time may well be beyond recovery. There is also the possibility of loss or damage in the case of fire or flood for example.

It is a very good idea to consider repairing your special photographs or even your entire photo collection in order to stop the unavoidable deterioration that will take place no matter how carefully your photos are stored. Once repaired, the photos can be stored and shared on CD or memory stick, as well as long-term safekeeping. Once you have digital copies you needn’t worry so much about further damage because digital images do not degrade. We can use these digital images to make prints on archive paper, which will last over 100 years with no signs of degradation.

The restoration process improves the quality of the original photograph – by removal of spots, stains, marks, tears as well as improving contrast, brightness, colour balance and enhancement of detail, focus and sharpness. Adding colour to black and white photographs, as well as being able to make high quality enlargements.

Our digital photo repair restoration process improves upon the quality of the original photograph. Beginning with a scan of your photographs, we then carry out the photo repair work digitally, by removal of spots, stains, marks, creases, tears as well as digitally removing mould damage, improving contrast, brightness, colour balance and enhancement of facial and other detail, focus and sharpness.

We can also add or remove unwanted objects or people, replace backgrounds, or even add colour to black and white photographs. Check out the What We Do tab above to see the varied list of services we offer and for more information on each.

As leading photograph repairers our customers’ satisfaction is always top priority. This means we don’t ask for payment until you have seen and are completely happy with the work we have carried out.

Take a look at our examples to see the quality photo repair that you can expect and also some of the many testimonials we’ve received.

Once the photo repair and restoration work has been approved you will always be sent your restored digital files for you to safely download onto your computer/device and share with ease amongst family and friends.

We can also provide you with fresh new prints on archive quality 270gsm paper which will not show any signs of deterioration for 100 years under normal conditions. See more information on our prints.

Though we prefer to work from our own high resolution scans where possible, we can also work from your own scans and digital files if preferred. If you’d like to do your own scanning then please click here to see our scanning advice.

Sometimes our original photos can be misplaced or become lost altogether and so a poor quality phone photo, or digital copy is all that remains of those precious memories. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us, even if you are unsure there is anything that can be done to rescue your photo. We will always be more than happy to help in any way we can.

This is the only photo our customer had of his relative and he wasn’t sure if anything could be done, luckily we were able to help.

It is always a good idea to check your collection of old photographs and albums. You may not realise there is a problem until you take a look at your photos after many years of storage. Our precious photographs often have a habit of fading away and in time may well become beyond recovery. There is also the possibility of loss or damage in the case of fire or flood.

Occasionally we can find that our photos have actually become stuck to the glass of their frame, after many years of being displayed. In these cases we always recommend posting the photo to us in its frame, keeping it stuck to the glass to avoid any further damage that could occur. We can carry out a high resolution scan of the photo through the glass and carry out our digital restoration work as usual.

It is a very good idea to consider repairing and restoring your special photographs or even your entire photo collection in order to stop the unavoidable deterioration that will take place no matter how carefully your photos are stored. Once repaired, the photos can be stored and shared on CD or memory stick as well as your own computer. Once you have digital copies you needn’t worry so much about further damage because digital images do not degrade.

If you are interested in a cost effective way of digitising your photo collection, take a look at our page on scanning and optimising for more information.

What do our restoration and retouching services include?

 

Our photograph repair and restoration services include; Repairing tears and creases, removing folds, scanning and restoring photos stuck to glass, replacement of backgrounds, repair of wedding photos, correcting colour balance, restoring faded images, restoring digital photos, digitally removing mould damage, scanning and restoring negatives and slides as well as prints, creating enlargements or scanning only.

Our photograph retouching services include; Removing unwanted parts of photographs, adding to photographs parts of other photographs, retouching faces, recomposing the important elements of photographs, repairing poor digital prints, as well as combining different photographs.

You may not realise there is a problem until you take a look at your photo collection after many years of storage. Our precious photo collections are in fact fading away and in time may well be beyond recovery. There is also the possibility of loss or damage in the case of fire or flood for example.

It is a very good idea to consider repairing and restoring your special photographs or even your entire photo collection in order to stop the unavoidable deterioration that will take place no matter how carefully your photos are stored. Once repaired and restored, the photos can be stored and shared on CD or memory stick, as well as long-term safekeeping. Once you have digital copies you needn’t worry so much about further damage because digital images do not degrade. We can use these digital images to make prints on archive paper, which will last over 100 years with no signs of degradation.

The photo repair and restoration process improves the quality of the original photograph – by removal of spots, stains, marks, tears as well as improving contrast, brightness, colour balance and enhancement of detail, focus and sharpness. Adding colour to black and white photographs, as well as being able to make high quality enlargements.