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Examples of Colourising Faded or Black and White Photographs

24 July 2019

I am increasingly asked to either correct really badly faded colour photographs, or add colour to black and white photographs.

Here are some recent examples of work I’ve done.

This first one is one I did for customer Marianne M, see her story below

“My uncle now 91 was Captain of St Mary’s Golf Club on St Mary’s and used to play with Harold Wilson and other members where he could have a round of golf without being followed by the press and simply trusted all of the members not to gossip. He knew all of the members and any strange faces he was quite wary of although apparently always very polite. The photo was taken just outside the club and the beautiful uninhabited Island of Samson is in the background . There are beautiful views all over the course. By the way my uncle is still the best player and at the age of 91 only 3 months ago got another “hole in one” So it’s great to have this photo as it most likely appeared years ago. The photo is fabulous, I am sure my Uncle will be delighted with it”

Here are some more examples

Example of colourising a black and white by Photographs Forever

A very old and badly defaced and damaged print restored and colourised

A badly faded photograph thought by my customer to be beyond repair.

A faded photograph that had lost it’s sparkle brought back to life

This customer knew the original colours of the photograph taken in black and white at the time

A very old black and white photograph restored and colourised

Example of colourising a faded colour photograph by Photographs Forever

A badly faded poster restored

Example of retouching a colour photograph by Photographs Forever

Removing the unsightly shadow

Restoring both photographs and then making a montage so the couple are in the same photograph, then colourising

A very old black and white photograph brought back to life by restoring and colourising

Example of adding colour to a photograph

A badly faded colour photograph restored and printed on archive paper to prevent the same fate occurring in the future

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Two Recent Photograph Restorations

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20 December 2018

Here are two restorations I completed recently.

A distracting background changed for a more appropriate one

….and a very small, badly damaged oval photograph that’s now been printed 12″ x 9″

Here’s what my customer Sheila B said “Thank you Richard for restoring the very old and battered photo of my mum you made a beautiful job of it I’m so thrilled forever grateful”

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Combining Photos to Create a New Photograph

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17 October 2018

My customer had two photographs of the subject in different uniforms, taken by flash with the camera set to the wrong shutter speed so half of each photo was black.

I removed just the subject from each photo, restored the images and then replaced the background in order for the finished article to look more suitable.

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Make Your Favourite Photos Great!

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23 July 2018

Here are a couple of examples of photographs we altered recently to make special photographs even more special.

The photo below was taken in a ski resort but with a fence as a background, I added the ski resort.

Below are the two original photographs, with favourite photos both with portaloos in the background!

So I took the best portrait of each person and put them together on a background of the favourite walk they used to take together.

A lovely reminder of good times.

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Here’s a Different Photograph Idea

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16 July 2018

I recently restored and manipulated an image of Cookie the Pekingese at Crufts so that he could continue to have a presence.

Here’s the original photograph and the finished version

Here’s owner Pauline’s story:

Back in January of this year, the day I feared most came along and I had to say goodbye to Cookie after the most amazing 14 years. Although small in actual size, his presence was huge and the kitchen, despite having other Pekingese around, felt so empty. I wanted a picture of my boy in his prime, here he is in the show ring at Crufts in 2009 where he was awarded a 2nd place in a very strong class.

The original photograph had to be cropped a great deal and did not have the resolution I needed for the splash-back project, but with Richard’s magic, he got us there.

Now Cookie (or Corges Mr Cocky – his KC Show name) is back in the kitchen, with the vantage point he always wanted, he can see what is cooking!!

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12 Ways To Make The Most of Your Photos

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5 May 2018

I don’t know about you, but I love this time of year. Longer days, sunny mornings, colour reappearing in the garden. And then there is the spring cleaning of course…

You’d be surprised (or perhaps not) at how often this leads to new conversations around old photos; a box recovered from the back of a dusty cupboard or the damp corner of a loft often leads to the rediscovery of old pictures and memories. With spring being all about new starts and rejuvenation, what better time to breathe new life into something so valuable?

This is why I’ve created a new brochure to share with you. It’s a light read – with photographs designed to show you not only how your pictures can be saved; but what we can do to enhance them or turn them into new forms of enjoyment, such as our new seamless lay-flat Photobooks or large sized canvasses.

Click here to look at, or download the new brochure

I’d love to hear what you think of the brochure and invite you to get in touch if you need help with saving your precious photographs. The brochure covers a lot but not all of what we can do, so feel free to give me a call anytime even if it is simply for some advice.

Here’s to spring (and not so much cleaning)

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V-Bomber Refueling Lightnings Above Niagra Falls – Colourised Photograph

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1 March 2018

This fantastic photograph of a Victor V Bomber refueling English Electric Lightnings over the Niagara Falls is one that I had the pleasure to restore and colourise recently. I found the correct colouring of all the aircraft from technical drawings I found on Google Images.

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4 Photo Panoramic Scene Merged and Restored

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22 August 2017

I received this photograph as four photographs stuck together and folded as that was the best way with the technology of the time. When it was restored I printed a 40inch wide print.

Here’s the story….

“The Cuillins is a range of rocky mountains located on the Isle of Skye, we spent many happy family holidays on Skye when I was a child and my Dad, George Smith who was a very talented amateur photographer, spent years perfecting his panorama of “the Cuillins” as we used to call them, he unfortunately passed away in 2015 and we recently went through some of the many images he had painstakingly crafted over the years, including this one which was in fairly bad condition having been folded up & stored in a box in a damp sitting room in a French Farmhouse for the last 10 years; I love this image as it brings back so many wonderful memories of my Dad and the fun we used to have on Skye in the shadow of the Cuillin, I am so grateful to Richard for the amazing restoration and for enabling such a precious memory to be recovered and displayed once again in its full glory.”

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Fascinating Photograph During the Blitz – London 1940

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8 August 2017

My customer Karen E tells the story of this (now restored) photograph

“This photograph was taken on a day when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Poplar during the Blitz. My father as a boy is standing in the right upper window with his mum on his right and his best friend beside him.

My father remained in Poplar throughout the war with his father who was a stevedore in the docks and his mother who was a seamstress. Their house suffered damage in the war when an incendiary device came through the roof and landed on his parent’s bed, luckily it did not ignite and they managed to wrap it in the bedding and throw it out of the window!”

Here’s the original photograph I received: