Photo editing & restoration

I’ve been manipulating photos and images for well over 25years now, and is one of the challenges which I truly relish every time I get a new project. There is virtually nothing that cannot be done to a photo, given a suitable amount of time that is.

• Photo enhancing (brightening, colour balancing etc.)

• Photo manipulation (such as removal of elements from a photo)

• Photo restoration (healing cracks, rips and marks etc.)

This is just a very small sample of the different types of photo editing work that I can help you with. If you have a task that is not covered here, please get in touch and I’m sure I’ll be able to help you.

Below are some examples of what I can produce.

The power of imagination

There really is no limit when it comes to what can be done to any image, as the example below will show. All it takes is imagination and some creativity to transform any image into something incredible.

Click (or tap if you’re on mobile or tablet) and drag the sliding line to reveal or hide each image.

Backgrounds can be replaced which can change the look of an image quite dramatically, as in this next image. What was once a quiet and normal looking photo can be transformed into something much more surreal.

The Ideal

Sometimes it’s not possible to get the photo that you originally hoped for, either due to weather conditions or some other factors out of your control. This is where the magic of photo enhancing and manipulation can really help to save the day.

Below is a great example of this, where items such as fencing could not be moved or excluded when taking the photo, but are obviously not wanted in the final published image. A blue sky also provides a bit more colour to an otherwise colourless image.

Covering up the cracks

Time can take it’s toll on us all, but luckily for photographs this is reversable. The wear and tear that may have ravaged an old photo can be completely healed and the image restored to virtually the same as how it looked when it was new. Cracks can be filled in, blemishes patched up and torn or missing sections can be repaired.

The power of AI upscaling/resizing

Software has come a very long way and can do amazing things today. One of these is upscaling photos using Artificial Intelligence (AI). What this enables me to do is to restore the details and improve resolution of old photography. It can even restore peoples faces (using Face detection technology) to a point that would have been impossible to do previously.

Once the software has upscaled the image I then use my editing skills to restore colours that have faded over time, to bring the photo to a much higher quality than ever before.

With a higher quality of image it is then better suited for having larger prints made for framing or just to add to your photo album.

As with almost every other service that I provide, I can only provide an accurate quote when I fully know and understand the brief being given.

Once the image and brief has been received it will be priced depending on the amount of work necessary. Higher quantity orders will receive substantial discounts.