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General
Restorations
Contents:
Faded
and torn
General
Grime
Missing
Pieces
Stuck
to glass or paper
Tintypes
Water
damage
Wrinkled
Photos
mounted on (glued to) any kind of surface
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Photos
mounted on (glued to) 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.
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Wrinkled
 
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Faded
 
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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
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This photograph was faded and stuck to the black scrap page.
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nothing that can be done to fix a photo, let us see it!
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This photograph had to be picked up from the
scanner with a paper. It was as brittle as corn
flakes!
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Water Damage
Water damaged photos usually get stuck to the glass, do not try to
remove it, bring it to us as is.
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Circa 1950. Removed warped edge on top and removed
fade.
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Stuck to Glass
 
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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.
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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.
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General Grime.
 
Circa 1864. Clean everything and
replace pants.
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Circa
1910. Cleaned all soil and added to the background so that it was a standard
size.
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Circa 1930. Repaired cracks, removed
yellowing, sharpened, extended background, cropped, enlarge to an 8x10 and added sepia tone...the works!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tintypes
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 Circa
1897. The dog chewed this tintype. Restored background and cropped out most
of damage.
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Circa 1897
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Note: For optimal viewing of these photos, your display setting should
be set at "True Color (24 bit)" and your screen resolution should
be set to "800 by 600 pixels.