Restoration
Old photo restoration
Scratches, creases, damp stains, paper that has faded unevenly. You upload a scan of the print and get back a file where the faces are legible again.
Restoring one photograph: PLN 12.99
See the full price listThe price does not depend on how damaged the print is. You pay once you have seen the finished result.
Before
After
When this is the right job
A box of prints from your grandparents
Photographs kept for years in a wardrobe or a cellar. Creases from being carried around, damp stains, paper that has yellowed unevenly.
One photograph meant for the wall
A wedding portrait, a christening, the last picture of someone. Restored and printed larger than the original.
Photographs for a family album
A dozen frames prepared for a round anniversary or an eightieth birthday, all in the same clean condition.
Scans from an archive
Material for a publication, a dissertation or a local history record, where legible detail matters more than mood.
What happens to your photograph
Restoration is not one filter. It is several steps applied in order to the same file.
- 01
Reading the damage
Scratches, cracks and stains are separated from what is genuinely in the photograph. This is the step that matters most: nobody wants a fold in a dress treated as a scratch.
- 02
Rebuilding what is missing
Each damaged area is filled in from its surroundings. Where the image is intact on both sides of a scratch, the repair is effectively invisible.
- 03
Evening out the tones
Faded paper and damp discoloration are brought back into one consistent range of brightness. The photograph stops having a warmer corner.
- 04
Recovering facial detail
Eyes, mouth and hairline get separate attention, because those are the only places where a viewer instantly senses that something is off.
What to expect
Restoration rebuilds what can be inferred from the rest of the frame. If a scratch runs across a cheek, the surrounding area says plainly what belongs there and the result is faithful. If an entire face is missing, no tool can work out who it was — you will get a plausible face, but not that one.
Scan quality makes a bigger difference than the extent of the damage. A print scanned at 600 dpi on an ordinary home scanner beats the same print photographed with the best phone, because a phone adds reflection, skew and its own smoothing.
If the photograph is black and white and you want it in colour, order both at once. Restoration done before colorization gives a noticeably better result, because the colour is not trying to treat a scratch as an object of its own.
Start with one photograph
One result tells you what to expect from the rest of the box.