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Both Fruit... Different Taste!

Be an Educated Consumer When it Comes to Shopping For a Restoration Service... Compare Apples to Apples.

Our service can be compared to the difference between going to an exclusive department store and bargain store. Do not compare apples to oranges. 

When looking at a “photo restoration service or website”, consider the following:

Preservation/Conservation Vs. Digital—You may want to restore or preserve the original, then you go to a Preservationist or Conservator, digital is not for you. Digital is less expensive, with no risk to the original, with the preservationist, if you don’t like it, there is no turning back. How true to the original photo will the restoration be? Will the damaged objects be repaired by cloning or cut and paste or drawn in?

Good Clues, For Good Choices— When few photos are displayed in any web site or place of business, this could be a sign that there has not been many restorations worth showing? Are they focused on restorations or other products like their camera's, photography or picture frames? Maybe they are not passionate about their site or your photos or that other product is their passion.  If turn around time is 2 days, chances are they are outsourcing. Ask if the work is done in-house or do they out source the work, ask to who? You do not want them sent via email overseas. This process takes time, TLC, wait for a job well done. Scan your photo, send it to them, ask for a quote, then just don’t compare our prices but consider the process. Inkjet copies fade unless you have the latest and best printer system. Chemistry process is what you want. If you have very old photos ask if they offer matt which is the best for antique photographs. Some only offer gloss or luster catering to modern photos? Restoration services located in Mall’s or independent office buildings must pass the over head , advertising and the cost of accepting credit cards expenses onto you.  PMP keeps all their expenses down and passes the savings onto you.

Armature Vs. Professional—You may know someone that is pretty good with image editing that’s grrrrrrreat. Before you ask them to do you the favor or pay them, first ask them how they acquired their talent and what was their experience with it. One gentle lady said to us at a convention that her husband could do it just as good as a professional. He immediately jumped in and said “Yeah, I did do it and I was very satisfied how it came out. It took so darn long and I was good and sick of it when I was done, I will never do another one, it’s not worth it. If you have another one in mind just pay her to do it, it’s worth it.” Consider the friend that may only be qualified for simple repairs and lack the experience that comes from restoring hundreds of different kinds of damage. Because they are your friend, it is polite to wait when it is convenient for them, they also may take longer for lack of experience or procrastinate because they really didn’t want to do it, it is work, after all. Don’t leave your descendants the work of an armature.

Miscellaneous Benefits—Do you have to leave your original with them? If you should loose your photos, do they keep your photos on file? It may be difficult to get your photo to them, at a time that is convenient for you. Call for an appointment, time is negotiable when the business is in the home. With PMP you have many options to getting your photo to us. Ask if there is a money back guarantee?

This photo (below) was submitted to us by someone looking for work.  What they did was, erase the damage away, draw in what was lost, loosing the photographic appearance.  The hands and face look like a drawing.  This cuts down on the time but takes away the charm of the original. This artist did not meet Photos Made Prefect's standards.

 

Original 

 Submitted in resume.

                                              This is not PMP's work!
 

Now compare Our restoration.

This photo speaks a thousand words, about our quality and commitment to the original.  The hands still have a photographic appearance, the background looks to be more like what the original appeared to be and the face has not been distorted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With our photo dating experience we know what is appropriate for the time period of a photo and colored it accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Genealogy Corner 

 

Fast Navigating To Specific Genealogy Interest In This Site

Photo Dating

History of Photography and more.

Need a Guest Speaker give us a call...619-397-7600....Our next event will be held by the Genealogy Society of Riverside on 02/17/07....start looking for the photos you want to have scanned " On Site".  Your photos never leave your sight.  Call! 619-397-7600...

Guest Speaking

Our next event is the "Jamboree June 8th, 9th, and 10th" in Burbank California ... The largest Genealogy Convention on the West Coast!  We will be scanning SATURDAY ONLY!

 

 

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   As if Restored Photographs were not a custom gift already...make the gift about them personal.

 

Decorating

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Military Tribute

See Before and After Military Restorations

50% Discount on military photographs

 

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News Flash.... FYI.... Our service is in the USA.... we do not out-source our work....  All work done in California.

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