|
General
Restorations
Contents:
Faded
and torn
General
Grime
Missing
Pieces
Stuck
to glass or paper
Restore
and Reduce large Paints/Photographs/Posters to any size you desire
Tintypes
Water
damage
Wrinkled
Photos
mounted on, glued to, embedded in, any kind of surface
Panoramic
photos that are typically 7x36 brittle and permanently curled from
storage.
|
REPRODUCTION
IS PROHIBITED, EITHER BY REPRINT OR ELECTRONIC MEANS. PHOTOS CANNOT
BE USED FOR MARKETING, ADVERTISING, PERSONAL PROMOTION OR ON THE INTERNET.
|
|
Photos
mounted on, glued to, or embedded in, any kind of surface
|
|
No matter what surface your image is on, as long as we can scan it we
can restored a scanned copy of it. We have received photos attached
to wood, embedded in glass (like a paper weight), tin, large lapel pin
buttons and now china. See
some of these samples in the Colorizing section.
 
This image original travels to all conventions. Donated by Emily
to PMP
This sweet photo was mounted on what seemed to be china, it was dropped
and shattered. The silver lining to this story is, now that the pieces
were restored the color was also restored and could be shared with every
one in the family.
|

Photos on large buttons were trendy in the early 1900's. Today their
seen mostly in any type of campaigning, not in personal photos like these.
|
|
|
|
The Challenge of 2008
 
|
|
Wrinkled
|

|
Winner of the worst of 2007.
Submitted by Roberto Kay
|
|
|
|
Faded
Back to top

|
|

|
|
Back to top
|
|
These tiny photos taken in Photo Booths can be
enlarge too, just as long as they are in focus.
Missing
Pieces
Submitted
by Marjorie, Woodland Hills California
|

|
 From
two small locket to a 5x7 portrait.
|

This photograph was faded and stuck to the black scrap page.
|
|

|
| Before you decide there is
nothing that can be done to fix a photo, let us see it!
|

|

|
|
|
|
This photograph had to be picked up from the
scanner bed with a paper. It was as brittle as corn
flakes!
|
|
|
Water Damage
Water damaged photos usually get stuck to the glass, do not try to
remove it, bring it to us as is.
|
|

Circa 1950. Removed warped edge on top and removed
fade.
|
|
|

|
|
Stuck to Glass
 
We
can stress enough the importance of matting. Any
image you care deeply about should have a matt. The space provided by the
matt from the glass prevents it from sticking to the glass, it's not just
for looks.
|

|
Not only is the glass stuck to her shirt
but the whole photo was too dark. Her eyes are now clear her hair is
lighter blonde and her skin is not so red.
|
|

|
|
The original was exposed to
moisture and became stuck to the glass. We scanned
it with some glass
still attached. Send them in just the way they are with the glass on
and we will do the work.
|
|
General Grime.
 
Circa 1864. Clean everything and
replace pants.
|

Circa
1910. Cleaned all soil and added to the background so that it was a standard
size.
|

Circa 1930. Repaired cracks, removed
yellowing, sharpened, extended background, cropped, enlarge to an 8x10 and added sepia tone...the works!
|
|
Back to top
|

|
|
At the time you may thought it was a good idea to
buy the largest size and now you just rather put it in a scrapbook, so
have it restored and reduced.
|
|
If you have a photograph that was taken in a tourist
attraction shop, chances are the chemicals or inks used are unstable, the
paper quality poor and now you seeing signs of deterioration. If you
don't have this problem it is still a good idea to have them scanned and
reprinted onto quality paper.
|
 
You can't see the damage here that was all over, so
the second photo is an enlargement of her arm to show you the instability
of the inks used. It's like oxidizing like rust, not to mention
the overall red discoloration of the "so called sepia", yellowed to look old
is one thing but orange is ruined.
|
|
Tintypes
|
Submitted by Katherine of Escondido CA
|

Circa
1897. The dog chewed this tintype. Restored background and cropped out most
of damage.
|
Circa 1897 Tintype
|
|
|
|
Restore
and Reduce in Size to any size you wish.
 
|
|
Panoramic Restorations
Old panoramic photographs present their own specific problems. Scanning
them while trying to keep them from rolling up is one and another is once
it is rolled out and flatted, it cracks in increments depending on the
size of the roll. After a year of being pressed under a glass, we
thought this one would stay flat but were we wrong. We simply wanted to get it into digital form
anyway we could, restore
it and display the restored version. The
original had to be glued to a board and at times, still pulled up from the
board trying to curl.
|
Original 7 x 36
Restored color, cracks, stains and resized to standard, 7 x 30.
My father was in the crowd on the right-hand side.
Panoramic Restorations
|
More information about this image if your interested.
This image is the section of crowd at the
lower-front section on the right side. It demonstrates how clear the cropping and enlarging of these
old photos can be. The arrow is pointing to my father. In the left hand corner there's
info about the photographer. Wm J. Fallone, 302 NW 9th Ave., Miami
Florida. In the center is says "Derby Day, Hialeah Park, Miami Jockey
Club, Feb 27th 1932.
|
|
When it was flattened, it cracks in increments. We didn't care because we would fix it. You can see another sample in the military section.

|
It's
difficult to see here, so here is a enlarged section of it.
|
|
|
We have extensive experience with these large images but show few
because they are so large you really can't appreciate the work done here
on the site and they take a lot of space. See another sample in the "Military
Tribute"
|
|
Back to top
|