Below are two separate photographs which I colour matched and cropped to align so that the two resulting canvas enlargements that were each 30” x 20” could be hung next to each other on a gallery landing – and very effective they looks too. Terry can be seen in each picture!
Here’s the two original photographs
A selection of Vintage Comic Strip Card and Prints
I have recently restored images from comic strip books such as Dan Dare from The Eagle, Dennis The Menace, Desperate Dan, Bash Street Kits, Beryl The Peril and in conjunction with Ian Berry of Bluebell Enterprises. Ian has created from these images a series of greeting cards to complement his huge range of other vintage images which are available in local shops as well as on line.
Go to www.VintagePics.co.uk to see the full range of handmade greeting cards and mounted prints, ready for framing, all with a nostalgic theme.
Over 2000 images available including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, early Vogue and Vanity Fair covers, Vintage Adverts, Motor and Travel Posters and a wide selection of town and village views from the 1700’s to the 1960’s.
Oaklands The Grange Red Cross Hospital 1918 Photograph Before and After Restoration by Photographs Forever
This photograph of Oaklands The Grange, Clevedon – Red Cross Hospital was taken 18 November 1918
This residence was kindly lent to the Red Cross by Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Wills, of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire, completely free of charge for use as an auxiliary hospital in August 1914.
It came under the jurisdiction of the 2nd Southern General Hospital, Bristol, later being affiliated to the Beaufort War Hospital. The members of the men and women’s sections Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), Somerset 33 (Clevedon section) and Somerset 2 worked arduously in its preparation and by the time it was opened on November 9th 1914, they had furnished ten wards and a total of 45 beds, and also equipped the offices and kitchen.
This is a photograph of Falco Ala who was a former slave and claimed to be 106 years old. He was a slave in Colleton County South Carolina.
Titanic Photograph Before Restoration and Manipulation
Customer David Lawrence purchased this photograph, framed in a convex frame from the USA to add to his large collection of Titanic memorabilia. When the photograph arrived he was amazed to find that the actual Titanic book in the picture was also enclosed. As the book in the photograph was very faded I combined a new image of the book into the photograph to make an even more realistic restoration that was enlarged for reframing.
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters – After restoration
The original photograph was taken in Falco Ala’s cabin around 1912-13. The Titanic book in his hand is a first edition. It appears he married and his son died on the Titanic. Research shows there were four Negro passengers on board and none survived so the story stands up.
I was sent this very old photograph that had been rolled op for many years and had become so dry that became cracked and torn and of very limited use to enjoy. With some care and attention this is now digitally restored to its original condition
I received this email from Elissa B after she had agreed to go ahead with her photo restoration:
“You will be making my mom a very happy lady – the photo is in such terrible condition because she’s had it on display for the past 23 years, but I noticed a few months ago that she had taken it down because it had deteriorated so much and she was worried about it becoming completely unrecognisable. I managed to swipe it from her safe keeping place in the hopes that you’d be able to restore it. My brother and I are going to give it to her for her birthday in January and she will be made up. It’s her favourite photo in the world. I really appreciate how helpful you have been, you obviously have a great appreciation of how treasured people’s photographs are to them and their memories.”
Here are the before and afters of Elissa’s restored and colourised black and white photograph:
“My photos have arrived safely. They are spectacular, thank you so much for all of your hard work.”
Here’s Elissa’s follow up email:
“My photos have arrived safely. They are spectacular, thank you so much for all of your hard work. My mom’s birthday is not until 13th January so I’ll have to wait until then to see her reaction to the colourised photograph of us although I am itching to show it to her right away! It will mean the world to her :-)”
I had an interesting request recently. I was sent this photograph taken on an iPhone to see what I could do…. The original is underexposed, skewiff and has a large hot spot caused my the built in flash
Original iPhone photograph
Fully restored photograph
This is the message I received afterwards from my customer – “Thanks for the prints, they are brilliant. This village is where I was brought up and the house was our family home until 1984. I was born in that house in 1951 so the photo is somewhat special for me.Thank you for making it such a lovely picture.”
It’s always very gratifying to receive this sort of feedback and hear that the work I’ve done brings so much pleasure!
Here are just some of the many things we have restored, retouched and manipulated recently – do you have something similar that will benefit from a bit of attention?
Photograph Restorations, Retouching and Manipulation
Photograph Restorations, retouching and Manipulation
Favourite Photographs Scanned and Optimised
This is a great opportunity to get a quantity of your favourite photographs scanned and optimised for just 99p each.
The normal cost of this service is £3.50 each or £2.50 each if there are more than ten photographs.
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This is an example of before and after scan and optimisation
RECENT TESTIMONIALS
“My goodness, they look amazing! Very many thanks, how clever you are!” KC
“The photos are fab! You are a genius! Many thanks” PC
“Excellent and thanks! I’m actually really thrilled with them and will promote you to everyone” SW
“I’ve just received the photographs, they are perfect thank you very much indeed, you are a gentleman.
As I said before I shall be back to you in the future with some more work” JC
