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Once They’re Gone, They’re Gone. Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late

Richard Haines — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:39:28 +0000

We all assume we have time.

Time to organise those old family photos, to sort through boxes of memories, to finally get them digitised. But life gets busy – and sometimes, the unexpected happens.

A recent customer of ours had always meant to get her late mother’s photo collection scanned and restored. The photos, passed down through generations, sat safely in boxes – until a house fire broke out in the very room where they were stored. She is now searching through ashes and rubble, trying to salvage what little she can. Most of the photographs are likely to be beyond repair. The slides have melted. What was once a priceless family archive is now damaged forever.

This isn’t the first time we’ve been contacted by someone after a disaster – when they realise their irreplaceable photos have suffered significant damage. While we’ll always do our very best to help and salvage as much as we can in these situations, the truth is, the best time to act is before something like this happens.

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Wonderful Photograph Restored To Former Glory

Richard Haines — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:45:59 +0000

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

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A Successful Present for Mum! Restore and Colourise a Black And White Photograph

Richard Haines — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:08:20 +0000

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 :-)”

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Case Study – iPhone Photograph Restored

Richard Haines — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:16:43 +0000

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!

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Recent Photo Restoration Jobs Undertaken…

Richard Haines — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:17:54 +0000

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

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100 Photographs Scanned and Optimised for Just 99p each – September Promotion

Richard Haines — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:00:13 +0000

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.

Other Scan/Optimise Packages Available
50 Photographs @ £1.35 each
25 photographs @ £1.75 each

WHY YOU SHOULD I GET MY PHOTOS SCANNED AND OPTIMISED?

It brings your photographs to life
Share the photos in a single album with other members of the family
Make prints and enlargements
No longer the only photos in existence!
Share your photos with others

You can show the finished images on your computer screen and TV

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

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