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Complex Photograph Montage

Posted by Richard Haines on

14 June 2016

Here is an interesting order I completed recently. Not only to combine two photographs that were in very poor condition but also to add the woman from the first photograph – minus baby! – to the second photograph while turning her around so she was facing the right way rather than turning her back on her husband!

This was the email I received from my customer…

“Well you’ve done it again, this time with knobs on and I am not referring to the door knob in one the photos! What an absolutely fantastic result. I appreciate the time and effort you must have put in to get the images of individuals in one photo transferred and included in another. The results to include the clean up and restoration are really brilliant, my great grandmother has literally “rejoined” her family – Fantastic. I can’t wait to present the final prints to members of my family.” John P

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How To Sort Out Your Photographs

Posted by Richard Haines on

5 May 2016

Many of my customers have told me how they’d had difficulty confronting the task of sorting out their photographs which have piled up over the years, so I hope you find this helpful.
I’ve found that once I actually start a job that has been difficult to face, it’s always much easier and quicker that I thought it would be and invariably I actually enjoy the process, getting a good sense of satisfaction when it’s all done.
For example if you like the idea of having modern photo-books that will last forever with no deterioration, no loose photographs falling out and also a book of the family photographs that your relatives can easily have their own copy of then read on…..

It’s easiest to break the project into smaller manageable stages….

Gather all your photographs together into one place
Make a specific time to sit and go through them to separate the worthwhile ones from the not so worthwhile/duplicates/irrelevant ones
Put them into some kind of order – this is not critical as it’s very easy to change the order after scanning
Have the selected photographs digitally scanned – these can be put into separate “folders” if required
After scanning think about captions and or groups for the photos
Work out a suitable order for your photographs to go into the new photo-book
When your photo-book has been put together you will see a ‘virtual book’ on line for checking and approval
Order your photo-book(s) – this can be the relevant size/number of pages to suit the photographs in question.You may find it easier to divide the photos into several smaller books to keep sections separate (dates/places/content)

If there are various family members interested in your project, it is often the case that the overall cost can be shared so each person gets a finished photo-book and the cost of production of the book split several ways.

I hope this is helpful – don’t hesitate to get in touch to discuss any aspect further or if you need any further information – I can help you at every stage.
I can also assure you that the final photo-book will be something that you’ll truly treasure and you’ll be so glad you went to the effort to get it made.

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Dad With His Two Sons Around The Same Age

Posted by Richard Haines on

1 March 2016

I was asked to to combine three very low quality photographs so that there was a single photograph of the father with his two sons all around the same age.

I had to increase all the file sizes, restore the photographs, remove backgrounds and the lanyard, match the scale of each person, add Dad’s shoulders, find a different background and then put the composite image together to create the final result. Here’s the before and after.

Creating a Composite Image of Dad with his Two Sons at About The Same Age

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An Example of Colourising an Old Photograph

Posted by Richard Haines on

15 February 2016

Here is the original photograph, then the restored and colourised version. I knew what colour the Union Jacks were – all the rest were my best guess!

Photograph Before Restoration

Photograph After Restoration and Colourising

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Family Photobooks Are So Worthwhile

Posted by Richard Haines on

6 February 2016

Colette first contacted me in October 2012 and since then I have scanned many of her family photographs. I asked Colette to tell her story…..

“I think it all started with me seeing your advert in a local magazine and being sad at seeing my son Fabrice’s photos, taken in the 1970s, deteriorating rapidly. I had made an album for him for his 30th birthday in Dec 2002. I more or less stuck the original photos in chronological order in the album and wrote a line of text underneath each photo with the date and the place it was taken. Fabrice was absolutely thrilled with that first album. For him, it was like going back to his roots, if you see what I mean. I had the impression of having given him his childhood back and he was very moved that I had spent quite a bit of time making that album.
After I saw your advert, I thought you were the person who could save Fabrice’s photos. I gave you a small job and I was very pleased with the work you did, so I unstuck all the photos which were in Fabrice’s handmade album and gave them to you to scan and optimize in a view to make a new album. You showed me the albums you’d made for your children and I thought they were brilliant.That’s when I thought I had to do the same for my other children, Marianne and Hugo, not just Fabrice. While the work was in progress for the first albums which I gave to my children for Christmas 2014, you gave me plenty of advice and you showed limitless patience as I changed my mind time and time again.

My three children got their second album for Christmas 2015 and to see their reaction when they first look at it is priceless and worth all the efforts. They look at each other’s album and exchange memories and ask each other questions. As a parent, it is really wonderful to see. Albums number 3 are in the pipeline for Christmas 2016, for the three of them as their pictorial history continues.”

Here’s a double page spread of one ofr the the finished photobooks – 29cm x 29cm, 100 pages – a great opportunity to enlarge the best photographs too

29cm x 29cm, 100 page photobook

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The Miracle of Digital Storage

Posted by Richard Haines on

16 January 2016

4057 Photographs To Be Optimised….

A customer recently brought me the entire collection of his photographs dating from 1945 to 1985.

This turned out to be a total of 4057 photographs that completely filled two large suitcases, with each of the 87 folders carefully labelled.

I scanned, cropped and optimised every photograph and put a digital copy of every photograph before and after optimisation on a 32Gb USB Memory stick.

This created a total of 8114 digital files which all fitted onto the memory stick and incredibly there was remaining space for a further 16,000 digital photograph files!

32Gb Memory Stick containing 8114 digital photographs and still with enough space for a further 16,000 images. 24, 000 photographs on your key ring can’t be bad!

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Two Special Ladies Remembered

Posted by Richard Haines on

22 December 2015

This is a letter I received from Maurice after I had carried out some work and the story behind his photographs

“I was delighted with the work you did for me. You took old faded, a bit ragged looking photos, some showing cracks, and restored them to original condition. Your manipulation, to achieve a full length photo showing only my late wife, from two separate group photos, was unbelievable. I get the feeling that if it can be done, you have the skill and the patience to do it.

There is a saying, “Love the work you do and you will never work again”. I suspect this applies to you. I assume most people having photos restored, are rekindling memories, or trying to extend memories, and the fact that you can help them do that must give you great satisfaction.

My reason? My first wife, the mother of my four sons, died 1981. My second wife died 2015, I was married for approximately 30 years to each of them. Two very special ladies. I feel like I have had two lives. So photos have been resurrected and restored, and photos have been enhanced, and thanks to you are now on display. Thanks once again Richard, I wish you well for the future. Yours sincerely Maurice.”

Here are the photographs Maurice is referring to

Example of Photograph Restoration

Photograph Manipulation Example

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Mum and Dad Together At Last

Posted by Richard Haines on

15 December 2015

This is Irene’s touching story

“I first came in contact with Richard earlier this year when he restored a badly damaged photograph that I wanted to include in my autobiography. Over the years it had been folded in half, ‘mended’ with sticky tape and was in a really bad state. Richard restored it beautifully and it is now scanned onto my writing.

Later, while reading Richard’s blog, I came across Lucy’s story, how she had asked him to restore and combine two photographs in order to create one of her parents and grandparents. This started me thinking of my own parents and the fact that I had never seen a photograph of them together. My father was in the Royal Navy serving on HMS Achates on the Russian Arctic Convoys. He was lost at sea during the Battle of the Barents’ Sea when I was two and my brother just six months old. Sadly, my parents had just over three years together and my brother and I never had the chance to know our father. We always wanted a photograph of our parents together and over the years did everything we could to find one, even trawling the Internet but to no avail. I really wanted one not just for my dedication page but also to hang on the wall at home.

I had a photograph of Dad in his uniform and a rather blurry snap of Mum taken with my gran, aunty and grandad. The two photographs were taken 13 years apart but I asked Richard if he could somehow create a photograph of my parents together, not knowing if this would be possible. Well, his expertise took over and soon I experienced the absolute thrill of seeing my parents together in the same frame. The time difference didn’t matter as seeing my parents together was priceless and very emotional. I’m not usually lost for words but I was when I saw the photograph for the first time. Richard set it in a beautiful black frame and I ordered another one for my brother as a surprise gift.

Dad and Mum Together At Last

When he saw the photograph, my brother, too, was absolutely delighted. Thanks to Richard’s skill and expertise, we have something we always wanted but never really thought possible. My children are so pleased, calling it spectacular and special. Now, when I arrive home and open the door, I see my parents – together again. Thank you so much, Richard, for making a dream into a reality and for your dedication, professionalism and kindness.”

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What To Do When Your Favourite Photograph Is Lost or Damaged

Posted by Richard Haines on

29 September 2015

This is Jennifer and Frank’s Story as told by Jennifer

“I first contacted Richard at Photographs Forever to see if there was anything he could do with a photograph that had huge sentimental value to my partner Frank as it was the only one he had of his two daughters at that age. The photograph had accidentally been very badly damaged by falling from a car window in the rain and being repeatedly run over by several cars, here’s the photograph in question.

Richard said that unfortunately there was nothing he could do as the photograph was too badly damaged to restore.
I knew there was one other photograph of the two girls that was one of those tiny photographs in a key ring fob.

So I sent this to Richard to restore and also to ask if there was anything he could do to recreate the original photograph of the two girls with hi-vis waistcoats and hard hats. This is the resulting photograph that Richard created and sent to me

Richard sent this photo of the girls, to be signed for, and as I am at work, I missed the postie, got a card through the door to pick it up from the sorting office in West Bromwich. I did not know where it was so I asked Frank to take me. (I have not lived in West Bromwich very long). When I collected it he could see it was photos by the packaging, I told him that I had got you to do “something” to the picture of his girls but I would not tell him what because it was to be a surprise for his birthday, he seemed quite uninterested. He has since told me that he thought you had just made the photo bigger and made it oval, why he thought that I will never know! ANYWAY, when we got back home I opened it, I got goose pimples!
I said “You have got to see this, I cannot wait for your birthday”
He replied “No, put it away somewhere and I will have it for my birthday”.
I pulled it out the envelope again and said “No I cannot do it, you have to see this”.
When he saw it, well……………….. He is SO HAPPY, his bottom lip started to quiver and I have never seen him like that, he was astounded. I was afraid that he may not like it as it has been manipulated, it is not actually a memory, as photos normally are but no – he LOVES IT! We cannot believe the attention to detail, I thought that the girls were wearing hi-vis COATS on the original photo but they were not, they were actually waistcoat hi-vis’s, and the hard hats -on the original – the oldest girl has a blue hat and the youngest a white one, Richard is SO GOOD. AND the pen in the hi-vis on the youngest, AMAZING. WHAT MORE CAN I SAY……….. WE ARE SPEECHLESS, totally, I cannot thank Richard enough, he has made Frank’s day, his year, his birthday! I told Frank I would buy him a frame for it for his birthday, he said “No way, we are getting a frame on Saturday”.

Any ideas what I can get him for his birthday now please Richard??????????????????”

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Photographs Forever Featured in Newspaper

Posted by Richard Haines on

16 September 2015

Last week I sent out an email to my customers and this was seen by Sam Satchell of the East Grinstead Courier and he thought the story of Lucy Dixon’s photographs was a very interesting one and consequently called me for more details. The full page article was published today!

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