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Photo Restoration

With the ability to use photo restoration techniques you can have your photos brought back to their original beauty.  As long as the image still has enough detail for the specialist to see what it was originally, almost any damage can be undone.

If you compare the before and after images of the above photo you will see the amount of damage that was repaired.  The photo restoration procedure involved erasing the many creases that marred the image, restoring the finer details that were list over time, and even repairing the torn corners of the photo.  With the ability to digitally fix old photos, the average viewer would never know this was a restored image and not the original photograph.

Because all of the photo restoration is done digitally, there are no alterations done to the original photo.  Once the image is scanned into the computer the specialist begins altering the image by going through each and every damaged area changing the image.  For instance, to remove the creases requires changing each pixel of the image back to what it should have been. 

Because of the complex textures and shading in a photo there is no way to automate the process.  It requires a person to manually make any required changes.  When done properly there will be no way to distinguish between the places that were repaired and the places that were left untouched.

While having a digital image enhancement procedure done many people will have the photo converted from black and white to colour.  It is a great way to modernize your photograph, and is a natural step in the photo restoration process.

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