If you want restoration of very old prints carried out I will need to see the print before I can give you a definite quotation. I make a copy of the print then attempt to improve it. Where possible I also try for a x2 enlargement. If you have the negative or slide I can do a much better job of the restoration even if they have faded.

Please note: I do not copy the work of living professional photographers (or even recently dead ones).

The example above was rather extreme. You know the expression, 'he's got his father's eyes'.
Well the little boy certainly has now, although they have been rescaled.

 

I can attempt to repair discoloration, surface cracking and ink marks.

If the edge is torn and the background is not complex I will attempt a repair.

 

Restoration of a very old professional portrait photograph that was stained, cracked and crudely cut. In addition parts of the emulsion layer had detached.

Celebration of a family occasion from amateur photos by the production of a card print

 

An Irish Family in 1946.
The little girl was a grandmother herself when I restored this photo.

 

Hand Coloured Dress on a very faded and damaged picture

 

A small section of the restoration work from a portrait of a second world war soldier is shown. The father of a person from Milngavie. There was damage to the face including one of the eyes that was not easy to repair.

A very badly damaged and darkened Victorian image on a metal plate that had also become distorted. In areas where the emulsion had detached somebody had applied black paint!

 

This very fine Victorian print was highly unusual. It was printed onto a beveled surface on thick card then hand coloured. The flower detail had been painted in by the original artist. It was in a ornate oval metal frame with beveled glass! The print was extremely difficult to light and photograph since the bevel edge produced reflections at a different angle from the centre. I geometrically corrected the distortion that arose on the digital image by the nature of the curved projection. Although the owner had not noticed, the figure of her grandmother was running off at a slight angle (very excusable in such a fine piece). I also corrected this too. Finally I repaired the damage at the edges which arose due to contact with the metal frame and glass.

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