Old and Damaged Photo Restoration & Recolour

We provide a truly caring and high-quality photograph restoration service that many of our customers have enjoyed the final results. Our photo retouching and editing service that will restore the quality to your photographs so you can re-live your memories, be proud to have them back in a frame and hanging on the wall or shelf.

We are a leading photographic restoration service and we remain in close communication with you at all stages of our work because we want you to be happy with what we do, we are not happy until you the client are happy with our work.

We are passionate about saving your family history and any of your precious photographs, negatives, slides or documents and will scan them in high resolution.

We then restore them and provide you with digital files and, if required, fresh new prints in various formats and sizes giving your old photographs a new lease of life so they will last forever.

We not only restore photos but specialise in hand colouring old and faded black and white photographs to bring them to life.

You can combine those services with a framed print of your photograph and maybe one of our presentation packs to make the perfect gift.

We can also work from your scans and files if preferred, just get in touch for more information and pricing, we are happy to provide a Free no-obligation quote.

A list of what can be achieved

We can restore most creased or folded images to their original condition. Even photos that have been completely torn or shredded can usually be put back together.

Water damaged photos can be repaired by reconstructing stained areas and filling in missing details from other similar reference photos. For examples of our work and the techniques we use

Old board-based photos are very sensitive to moisture damage. If exposed to water then left to dry out completely, the emulsion or surface of the photo can simply flake off. Fortunately, this type of damage can be repaired.

Sellotape seemed like a miracle invention for sticking a photo back together. However, with time, the tape can dry out, leaving crackly, brittle, yellow-brown cellophane on your photos. The tape can also cause damage to the underlying photographic emulsion. These issues can usually be fixed with a variety of restoration techniques.

“Silvering” is where the silver nitrate contained in the chemicals used to develop very old black and white images shows on the surface of dark areas as a shiny blue tint, sometimes obscuring the details. This can be fixed in most cases.

Faces sometimes need retouching in both old photos and new. With old photos, paper grain, staining or other marks can easily ruin a face. With new photos, blemishes, shadows or wrinkles can detract from the intended result. Thankfully, with some careful retouching and skin smoothing, many of these issues can be fixed.

Missing pieces of a photo can often be restored, either by painstakingly recreating missing elements from scratch, or by cloning and rebuilding detail from existing areas of the photo, or a similar photo. Either way, this type of restoration requires time and skill to achieve good results.

In addition to restoring faded colour photos, we can incorporate colours into old black and white photos. When done properly, this can bring old black and white photos to life by recreating the hues present in the original scene but which could not be captured by the photographic process of the time.

Converting colour photos to black and white can help correct stains or to remove sepia or silver tinting that can occur over time. It can also be used for artistic effect or as an intermediary step when restoring badly faded colour photos, prior to recolouring.

A badly faded photo can be restored by painting in shadows and highlights to increase contrast in the image. This can be a challenging and time-consuming process, but extremely rewarding when done properly. In extreme cases, images must first be restored to a good black and white image and then recoloured.

When it comes to photo-montage (the combining of two or more separate images to form one), the only limit is your imagination! With skill, practise, and careful consideration of light, shade, colour and grain matching, we can achieve some quite remarkable results.