PHOTORESTORICS

DIGITAL PHOTO RETOUCHING AND RESTORATION

of Antique, Vintage, and Damaged Photographs

Services to Publishers, Advertising Agencies, Web Site Owners
Museums, Libraries, Historical Societies, Genealogical Societies,
Film-Makers, TV Producers, Small Businesses, and Individuals
in the Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle areas and Worldwide

If you've got great old vintage photographs that have fallen on hard times, I can probably digitally retouch, repair, and/or restore them for you. I can digitally repair black-and-white, color, hand-tinted, and sepia-toned (silver to sulfide conversion) antique images, such as old studio portraits, snapshots, Polaroids, slides, negatives, and a vast array of antique Daguerreotypes (silver plates), ambrotypes (glass negatives), tintypes (a.k.a. ferrotypes, melainotypes, or iron plates), and gemtypes (miniature tintypes).

Here are a few before-and-after samples of my digital restorations:

LEFT: Albina Mallows, courtesy of Linda Lee Schulz Anderson
RIGHT: Emma Rosalia Jonasdotter Löfbacka, courtesy of Debra Halinen Santelli

LEFT: Native American Boy, ca. 1851, Isaac Wallace Baker, courtesy Oakland Museum of California
RIGHT: Frederick Douglass, 1890, Matthew Brady

LEFT: Martin Van Buren, JH Whitehurst Galleries
RIGHT: Hazel P. Oten, courtesy of the Scurlock Collection, Smithsonian Institution

ABOVE: Elsie and Ted Ness and friends ca. 1960, courtesy of Patricia Ness

LEFT: Patrick Chadd's Father ca. 1950s, courtesy of Patrick Chadd
RIGHT: Bill Mallow's father ca. 1890s, courtesy of Linda Lee Schulz Anderson

There are many kinds of damage that I can repair or improve, including fading and discoloration; spots (mold and mildew, a.k.a. "foxing") and blotches; tears, scratches and scuffs; creases, cracks, dog-ears, and wrinkles; moisture and water streaking; and unwanted signatures or other writing. When damage is so severe that it covers a part of a face, I can sometimes even reconstruct the missing part.

To learn more about my digital photo restoration services and to see even more before-and-after samples of my work, please visit my digital restoration Web site at www.photorestorics.com.