What is Photo Restoration?
Photo restoration is the process of fixing aberrations (defects) found in the original film. These aberration include color fading, scratches, graininess, over/under exposure, dust, water marks and tears. The corrections are made to the scanned picture. Digamation offers two types of photo restoration at no additional cost: Digital Ice 4 technology and Manual retouching. • Digital Ice 4 Technology is the newest most complete automatic image correction technology available in film scanners. The Digital Ice 4 Technology removes surface defects (dust and scratches), restores and corrects colors, reduces film grain noise and optimizes contrast and exposure. • Manual retouching requires a Digamation technician inspect the scanned image for defects missed by the Digital Ice 4 Technology and make manual alterations to correct them. Digamation uses Adobe Photoshop CS2 to amend any defects. Manual restoration is only provided if Digital Ice 4 Technology is requested. Whether you request restora
There are actually two types of photo restoration. One type is to clean, repair and preserve the actual original print, negative or plate in order to slow down the inevitable deterioration to which they are subject. This is the sort of restoration that is usually practiced in museums and art galleries and is an extremely specialized and expensive process. It has largely been replaced with digital photo restoration. This involves scanning the original image and adjusting it with special software.
