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Wonderful Story Behind The Photograph

Carol send me the creased old photo to restore. Her romantic story is below.

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‘So the original photo was taken in London in 1998 in a pub called the Bram Stoker Tavern. Adam worked there, he was on a work visa from Australia. At the time he was 20 and I was 21.
I was a nanny that lived around the corner. One evening I walked into that pub and was greeted by his cute Aussie accent declaring that I was the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
We fell madly in love! Both of us had never been in love before. After a year I decided I hated living in London and wanted to come home back to my country life in Oxfordshire. Adam didn’t want that and unfortunately we split up. Both of us being stubborn.
Fast forward 20 years, he had been looking for me for years on Facebook but I had my married name still even though I was divorced but I found him! I never stopped thinking about him. He told me that he had never stopped loving me and he wished he had moved to Oxfordshire with me all those years ago.
After a few months of online dating he gave up his job and moved to England. We are planning to get married and have a couple of children. Life is really good. ‘

Military Group Photograph Restored and Colourised

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Here is a photograph I restored recently that had a burnt patch and lots of creases. I removed them and then went on to add colour.

Thought to be Lost – Restored to a Good Result

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John, now long retired, and in the centre picture as a boy, had these three photographs of his brother, himself and his dad on his brother’s new motorbike. He the thought the photographs were beyond repair and was absolutely thrilled that I managed to get the photographs to look this good again. I even turned his dad around so they are all facing the same way to go into the frame!

Three Brothers Together at Last in One Photograph

My customer John G wanted to get his grandfather with his two brothers together in a single photograph with a Scottish background.

Here are the three individual photographs and below the final result

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Here’s the review John left for me on Yell.com

“Please accept my wonderful thanks for the restored colour job you did to the photo of my late grandfather and his two brothers.
You have done a very professional and absolutely stunning job. You are very talented at what you do.” John G

Photographs Forever SME News UK Enterprise Award Winner – Best Photograph Restoration Specialists 2019

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I was very pleased to be awarded Best Photograph Restoration Specialists for 2019! 

SME News were delighted to present the annual UK Enterprise Awards, proudly encompassing a multitude of exciting and vibrant business industries from across the UK. As a business community, the UK, is renowned for its ability to thrive in diverse conditions and strive through times of economic uncertainly. For this reason, SME News celebrates and showcases some of the triumphs from those among the UK’s strongest and most innovative businesses and business owners within the UK Enterprise Awards each year. We are delighted to award Best Photograph Restoration Specialists 2019 to Photographs Forever for the outstanding quality of their work and efficiency 

Precious Photos Brought Back to Life

 

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This photograph started out as a faded and dull black and white transparency in a cardboard mount.

My customer Lesley was very pleased with the outcome.

She messaged me:

“I have just received the photos and I am totally delighted. You are so clever I can’t thank you enough. I will be sending you more things through once I have moved house. Please let me know where I can leave a review for your business. As I said previously you take such a chance when choosing a service from the internet and I am so glad I chose you.”

Photograph Stuck to Glass? No Problem!

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This photo belongs to my customer Jeanne.

She said “The photo of my mum was just an ordinary one, but when she passed away five years ago I decided to put it in a frame on my window sill and it’s been there ever since. I noticed it had been faded by the sunlight so decided to ask Photographs Forever and see if it could be restored. I then tried to remove it from the frame, it was well and truly stuck to the glass, when I finally got it out (with the help of a knife) my mum’s face was left on the glass, in a wafer thin layer, totally ruined! I was so upset I threw it in the bin.”

I spoke to Jeanne and told her all was not lost. She fished it out of the bin and sent it to me. Above is what I received and the finished restoration below

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Creating a Photograph of The Happy Couple

My customer Isobel P had a photograph of her mum and dad but there was an extra person between them that she wanted to be removed so she could have a nice photograph of her parents together which she could give as a special present to her dad. I only had a skewiff photograph of the original photograph to work with so had to correct the perspective and then manipulate the image to make a good result. Below is the before and after of the photograph in question followed by the review that Isobel kindly left for me on the Yell.com website

Manipulation to create the photo my customer wanted by Photographs Forever

From distorted three person photo to a corrected portrait of the happy couple

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Examples of Colourising Faded or Black and White Photographs

I am increasingly asked to either correct really badly faded colour photographs, or add colour to black and white photographs.

Here are some recent examples of work I’ve done.

This first one is one I did for customer Marianne M, see her story below 

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“My uncle now 91 was Captain of St Mary’s Golf Club on St Mary’s and used to play with Harold Wilson and other members where he could have a round of golf without being followed by the press and simply trusted all of the members not to gossip. He knew all of the members and any strange faces he was quite wary of although apparently always very polite. The photo was taken just outside the club and the beautiful uninhabited Island of Samson is in the background . There are beautiful views all over the course. By the way my uncle is still the best player and at the age of 91 only 3 months ago got another “hole in one” So it’s great to have this photo as it most likely appeared years ago.  The photo is fabulous, I am sure my Uncle will be delighted with it”

Here are some more examples 

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A very old and badly defaced and damaged print restored and colourised

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A badly faded photograph thought by my customer to be beyond repair.

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A faded photograph that had lost it’s sparkle brought back to life

 

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This customer knew the original colours of the photograph taken in black and white at the time

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A very old black and white photograph restored and colourised

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A badly faded poster restored

Example of retouching a colour photograph by Photographs Forever

Removing the unsightly shadow

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Restoring both photographs and then making a montage so the couple are in the same photograph, then colourising

Example of colourising a black and white by Photographs Forever

A very old black and white photograph brought back to life by restoring and colourising

Example of adding colour to a photograph

A badly faded colour photograph restored and printed on archive paper to prevent the same fate occurring in the future

 

Restoration of a Section of an Old Photograph

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I found a very small framed old photograph of one of my family members with his family and wanted to see the man more clearly so I restored that section of the photograph that is just (1.5cm x 2.5cm) which I’ve printed A4 and it looks very good! Above is a photograph of the original photo alongside the A4 print. Below is the restored file.

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