Photo restoration, without posting anything
Photo restoration in this country usually means finding a studio, agreeing a fee, and putting the only copy of something irreplaceable into the post. That last part is the reason most people never get round to it.
This is the same job done from a scan. You photograph or scan the print at home, we mend the damage, and you get the mended photograph back within minutes. Nothing physical travels, and nothing is insured for a sum that could not replace it anyway.
One photograph is mended free, without a card, so the question of whether it works on your photograph is settled before any money is involved.
What we mend
Tears and splits, including the ones that run through a face. Damp and water damage, which is most of what comes out of a British loft. Fading and colour drift. Mould and foxing. Creases, scratches, silvering, and the general wear of sixty years in and out of albums.
Severe damage is the case we are built for. A photograph that a free website already handled well did not need anybody.
What is invented, and what we refuse
Where a piece of the photograph has gone, the gap is filled with whatever fits, and that filling is invention rather than recovery. A missing face comes back as somebody's face and it is not hers.
We do not flatter people. No smoothing, no slimming, no making anybody younger — the person who comes back has to be the person you remember, or the mend is worthless however clean it looks.
We do not colourise monochrome prints, and we do not crop, straighten or sharpen anything. Only the damage changes.
How the pricing works here
Prices on this tree are in pounds and are set for this market rather than converted from dollars at whatever this week's rate happens to be.
One photograph is free. After that it is a pack — ten, twenty or fifty photographs, paid once, with nothing to cancel afterwards.
If a mend does not look like the person you remember, you do not pay. That covers the whole order, we do not ask for the files back, and a refund is cheaper for us than an argument.
Where the photographs go
You upload a scan. We keep it while the order is open and delete it, along with everything we made from it, thirty days later — seven days for a free mend. There is a button on your own page that does it sooner.
The print itself stays with you throughout. That is the whole design, and it is the single thing a postal studio cannot offer.
Questions
- Do I have to post my photographs anywhere?
- No, and we would rather you did not post them to anybody. You send a scan or a phone photograph, and the print stays in the drawer it came out of.
- I do not have a scanner.
- A phone photograph is enough. Flat daylight near a window, no flash, the phone held square to the print, and your own shadow out of the way. Many libraries also have a flatbed you can use for nothing.
- How long does it take?
- Minutes for a single photograph and about half an hour for fifty. We write to you when they are ready, and the link in that message brings you back to them.
- Is this the same as a high-street restoration studio?
- No, and for one valuable object a studio is the better answer. This is for the tin of two hundred that a studio would never be affordable for.
Try it on the difficult one
Send the photograph that everything else has failed on. It costs nothing, there is no card, and you will know inside a few minutes whether we are any use to you.
Mend one photograph, freeIf it doesn't look like the person you remember, you don't pay.