Photo restoration without AI

When we had our photo studio, one of my favourite jobs was to take a cherished photo belonging to a client, to scan it in high resolution and restore it, revealing detail that had no longer been visible in the faded, damaged print.

Image 1 is the original print I was given to work with.

Image 2 is the final restored photograph.

This photo of the little Victorian child was, perhaps, one of my favourites as the detail that emerged as I worked on the image revealed part of a family history of which I was unaware. The client had not been able to see that there was a tall figure to the right of the little girl in the picture. Once the restoration was complete, she told me that this lady was a relative that she knew of, and therefore this was the clue she needed to identify the little girl who was also a relative.

The satisfaction of restoring this part of a family history is perhaps not hard to imagine. We printed and framed this for her and it has pride of place on her wall.

Isn't she lovely?

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Back when photo resoration was pretty new or at least accessable to the average person, I had this image restored. I think it was around $15 dollars US.

This is my maternal grandmother, Marilla, taken in the 1920's. Every single one of my siblings and I have her same style upper arms!

The little I know about her tells me she was def a woman of her age, and she had some trouble with the opium dens at the time.

These 1920s #FilmPhotos sat undeveloped for 100 years, until now: https://zorz.it/ZXyVQ

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