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Use Photo Restoration to bring your old photos back to life

Photo Restoration 

Photo restoration is becoming more and more popular.  While in the times of yore a damaged photo was usually thrown away or stuck in a corner somewhere, modern digital photo technology has now presented the opportunity to take those old photos and give them a new lease of life. 

Time has a way of taking its toll on photos.  The corners can become folded or bent, they may get creased, crumbled or torn, and the photograph could become discoloured or faded by sunlight or mistreatment.  When this occurs your photographs can become less enjoyable than when they were first taken.  But just because you may have several damaged photos this does not mean that they cannot be enjoyed as they once were. 

Photo restoration techniques are now obtainable to make it possible to return your photos to their original splendour.  In some cases it is even possible to make the photo superior to what it was when it was first taken.  Not only can you carry out repairs it is possible to remove unwanted object that may spoil the photo or maybe change the background to improve the image.  You can have an old photo changed from black and white to color if you so desired. 

Once the photo has been scanned (300 DPI or more) into a computer, a digital photo professional will be able to go over your photo correcting any flaws or anomalies. This normally entails scrutinizing each part of the photo and cloning from good areas to cover the damaged ones, ensuring all the time that the correction looks natural and blends well with the surrounding area.  Every tone and shade of color will have to be matched in order to make the scratch or blemish become invisible. 

These sorts of techniques may also be used to make alterations to your photo.  You may have a picture that was very close to being a grand shot, except someone blinked just as the photo was being taken.  You could then have the eyes opened digitally by having the specialist redraw the eyes so that they are open in the photo. 

The good thing about this procedure is that your original photo is left intact.  All of the alterations are carried out on a digital copy so you will still have the initial photo.  Providing the restoration and photo enhancement is done correctly it is often possible to enlarge your photo to a size that would be suitable for a large frame. 

It is difficult to estimate the time involved when it comes to photo restoration as each photo has to be viewed separately. Some photos can be restored in a matter of minutes with single click computer enhancement software as where other can take a few hours painstakingly covering each area correcting tears scratches and missing parts. 

So why not look through your old photos that were once your pride and joy to see if you can have them repaired, altered, coloured or manipulated.  This especially applies to relatives that may have passed on so that they can be commemorated and remembered as they should be.