What is the basic approach used by DigitalCachet for photo restoration?
A. First, what the approach is not… it is NOT an assembly line process. Photo restoration is an art, and each project requires a thorough assessment of the damage to be repaired, consultation with the image owner, and a defect by defect customized effort to restore each image to the degree possible. Not all images are equal in this process. Some restore very well, but some have been left to decay too long and too much of the critical information needed by the restoration artist has been lost. Some may have been incorrectly scanned. These images can generally be substantially improved, but may have remaining faults. Some “restorers” attempt to “paint” over these faults with a resulting flat effect. DigitalCachet attempts to stay as true as possible to the original image. Efforts which require the “creation” of significant image content will be discussed with the image owner first. For archival work (slide/negative/photo scanning) rather than restoration work, we will take advantage of
