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Restoring faded photographs

It’s common for old photos to fade with age. They take on an unappealing yellow tinge and lose their vibrancy. Often a favourite photo will be on display in a photo frame and over time will fade in the sunlight.

For this type of damage more than any other we strongly recommend sending the original to us. Our specialist scanning software can detect the smaller changes in tone and extract the maximum amount of detail and contrast. This level of contrast enhancement is likely to reveal further damage as all the small flaws – spots, dirt, stains, etc. – become visible. So there may be more work involved than initially thought.

For faded colour photos the sunlight reacts to the chemicals/dyes in the print and often damages the blue or red “layer” more. This leads to strong colour casts; an overly red looking image for example. If the photo is very faded then the colour information may be too damaged to recover. In this case we can provide a monochrome image or offer you our colour tinting service..

Fixing an old yellowed photograph

Fixed after photograph
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The unappealing yellow tinge to this old photo is fixed along with crease, spot & finger print marks and new sepia prints provided.

Album: Restoring faded photographs

Restoring a very badly faded photograph

very badly faded image
This photo had faded very badly and had significant damage to the left side. We recovered what detail we could and set about restoring it. We added a new background rather than attempting to mend what was there to keep costs down.
restored very badly faded
Album: Photograph Manipulation Restoring faded photographs

1900s group photo needing stains repairing

repaired old photo
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Bringing back the contrast also enhanced all the stain spots and scratches which took some time to repair.
Album: Remove mould, spotting & stain damage Restoring faded photographs
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Customer Testimonials

The photographs arrived today and as usual you have done an extremely good job of improving them. I would be happy to recommend you to anyone requiring restoration as your work is very good and your reply is always prompt.
Carole JacksonKettering
Thank you very much for the work you did on our 50 year old photo. We had lost all of our wedding photos and all we found were some 2×2 inch snaps. The enlargement is perfect and arrived in time for our Golden Wedding. The service you provided was fast and efficient and we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend 2graphic Photo Restoration to anyone who like us thought nothing could be done with our small photo.
Isobel CordierDunoon
Many thanks for the amazing job you did in restoring the photograph of my Great Grandparents Wedding Day, I am thrilled with the results and would like to thank you for the excellent service that you provided. I would not hesitate in using your company again and would highly recommend to anyone looking to restore their photographic images.
Richard LearyHampshire
I cant thank you enough for the restoration work done. The 2 people in the photograph meant a lot to us and we were so disappointed with the state of the photograph, and we had resigned ourselves to the fact nothing could be done with it. My brother was amazed with how good it looked when I gave him his copy. Once again a BIG THANK YOU!!
Lynn CarterMiddlesbrough
The print produced from a WW1 mould damaged portrait of our Great Uncle who died in 1918 was truly amazing. Thank you very much for bringing someone back to us who we thought we had lost twice. Brilliant service – highly recommended.
Vivien DraycottUttoxeter

Repair Types

  • Repairing scratches, tears and creases
  • Restoring faded photographs
  • Mending torn-up photos
  • Recreating missing parts
  • Remove mould, spotting & stain damage
  • Fixing pictures stuck to glass
  • Enlarging & enhancing small images
  • Miscellaneous
  • Photograph Manipulation

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