The estimate for restoration

An estimate?

We believe that the estimate for restoration benefits you, the customer. Some restorations can be surprisingly quick to do. Some can literally take days, while others are not possible.

We cannot know what kind of work may be involved to correct the issues a photograph may have without seeing it first to evaluate things. Equally, until we have evaluated your photograph, you won’t know how much we are going to charge.

We feel it’s only fair to make customers aware of how much their photo is likely to cost to fix and give them every opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not to go ahead.

Perhaps most important to bear in mind, you are under no obligation at this point. You have only uploaded a file.

What are we looking for when creating the estimate for restoration?

We are looking for the following:

• FadingThis can be down to age, light or atmospherics. Most often, the colours and tones can be brought back, but sometimes, the fading of the colours or tones can leave the image too washed out. When this happens, the fading can result in other details disappearing too., where the colours or tones have become weaker.
• Blemishes and stains. This includes foxingFoxing is where dark, brownish-coloured marks begin appearing on the paper which can affect the image. It could be due to being exposed to moisture., water damageThis can be for any reason. Possibly, the photo got dropped into a puddle or perhaps something got spilt on it., scuffs and scratchesScratches tend to appear most often on photographs that are not kept in a photograph album. When they are taken out of whatever they are kept in, they’re dragged across other photographs, thereby causing the surface to become scratched. These scratches begin as slight scuffs that are hardly visible, but become bigger and more noticeable each time it it removed from its packaging, marks in general that will be removed.
• Folds and creases.
• Tears. These are not difficult to fix if the pieces are all there. They only become a problem when they are stuck together with adhesive tape Adhesive tape can appear to be a miraculous cure until it’s been there a while. The tape becomes brittle, the adhesive dries out and the tape falls away, leaving a nasty yellow stain over the image. This can be nigh-on impossible to rectify entirely. across the image.
• VoidsSome photographs have areas where the image is missing. This can be through tears or other damage. We have had numerous photographs that have areas where part of the image is missing. Sometimes these are easy to fix, but other times, not so much. In the case of facial features, this can be dependent upon what is actually missing as to whether we can repair the damage and still retain the likeness of the person.

We will email you the following

Every photograph is different, which is why we provide the estimate for restoration. The process is wholly dependent on the photograph and its condition when provided.

• We will tell you whether we feel we will be able to bring your photo back like new, whether we we will only be able to improve its condition, or whether it’s beyond our scope.
• We will let you know what we think it will cost to restore your photo.