What is “Digital Photo Restoration?
Digital restoration recovers and restores a photograph to its proper glory while leaving the original object unaltered. It doesn’t involve physical restoration nor alteration of the original photograph. I make a high-quality scan of the photograph, and this is what I work with. All the restorative work takes place in the computer, not on the original photograph. Digital restoration can work wonders; it usually produces much greater improvements in image quality than conventional physical restoration. If restoring the image, not the physical object, is what’s important to you, then digital restoration is the safest and the best way to resurrect a photograph. There’s much less risk of damage to the original than with conventional physical photo restoration. Digital restoration is not retouching. The heart of what I do is not painting, drawing, nor hand-tinting. The only time I “create” parts of a photograph is when that area in the original is so badly damaged that there is nothing of th
Digital photo restoration is a non-destructive process which converts the original, whether it is a print, a 35mm slide or a negative, into a digital file by high resolution scanning. Once the image is scanned the original is left intact and untouched. The digital file is then manipulated using Adobe’s CS3 suite on Apple computers. The restoration process can now begin, it is a painstaking process of repairing small groups of pixels individually to bring image back to its original glory. The original photograph is never modified, only digitally copied. Return to top of this FAQ page 2) What will it cost? Unfortunately, there is no simple answer as the damage to each photo varies considerably from photo but estimates are free. However, to permit you to estimate the cost I have broken the restoration costs into 4 classes of repair: Class of damage Price range Light Damage $10 to $20 Medium Damage $21 to $49 Heavy Damage $50 to $99 Severe damage $100 plus More information is available her
