Old sepia toned pictures now can be dusted off
from the attic and can be restored digitally. Old pictures are like old wines,
carrying so much emotions and memories. Thanks to the photo editing
professionals who has made it possible to restore the old and almost destroyed photos
to an almost new looking shape, letting our next and future generations to
relish the memories.
The photo restoration
process has made the editing companies quiet famous as it is much easier to
make people understand what changes has been made to the affected photo. Even
it is a lot easier and safe to send the photos digitally, by scanning them. So
the original piece is never at a risk. The reasons that make turns old photos
dull and yellow are mainly of water, moisture, dew, fire, dust, wrinkles,
scratches, accidental folds, and other environmental corruptions. Photo Restoration service will involve sophisticated tasks like cleaning the patches,
blurs, and yellowness and may be it will need to stitch the image. An old
picture that has become yellow due to the course of time can be turned in to a
crispy B & W photo with the charms restored. This is the first phase of
restoration. The editor may move to the next phases according to the wishes of
his client.
AdobePhotoshop is one of the most renowned software in the industry for this purpose.
Many of its latest versions like CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6 offers the necessary tools
for to improve the condition of the photos. Tools like crop tool, image
adjustment tools, hue/saturation tool, clone tool and image transformation tool
will be used for this purpose according to the necessity. The process is highly
digital and creative since there cannot be any particular measure. Each photo is
usually differently affected and the treatment they need is also equally
different from each other. Necessarily the treatment needs a seasoned designer
who can judge each measure perfectly.
Fortunately
the customer can provide the image in any format: negative, B & W, slide,
or the damaged version itself. The editor will be able to fix any damages occurred
buy moisture, heat, folding or any scratches by cleaning all patches and stains
of any kind. After uploading the scanned version of the photo, the photo editor
will create his own version. This one will be with more resolutions. The more
the photo is pixilated, the better will be the results. The original version
will be kept as a reference point. The process is highly complicated and it
needs time, patience and the superior skills for the designers. The studios
usually keep exclusively selected designers for these tasks. First, the initial
tasks are done like removing blemishes and stains. Any kind of scratches can be
removed by this. Later, cloning and healing is applied. It needs a controlled hand
to apply these effects otherwise a portrait look be achieved. The goal should
be to keep it as much realistic as possible.
Ron Zepplin
CEO of Clipping Path UK
Retouch and Outsource Specialist
Clipping Path UK Professional Photo Editing Product Photo Editors
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