Nothing is
beyond saving.
The creased one in the drawer. The one the water got to. The only picture anyone has of your grandmother. Send it to us and see it whole again.
One payment, no account, no subscription. Credits never expire.
The work
Drag across the photograph to see the difference. Faces are the hardest part and the part that matters, so we tune for likeness rather than polish. Your grandmother should still look like your grandmother.
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can repair
Most damage that looks permanent isn’t. If yours is worse than anything above, send it anyway — the photographs people assume are hopeless are usually the ones that come back best.
- Fading and yellowing
- Colour drawn back out of sun-bleached prints, and the yellow cast of old paper lifted without turning skin grey.
- Scratches and tears
- Creases, cracks, tape marks, missing corners and album-glue damage filled in so the repair does not read as a repair.
- Blur and softness
- Detail recovered from soft prints and poor scans. We stop well before the point where faces start to look like plastic.
- Black and white
- Colour added in period-appropriate tones if you want it, or left exactly as it was if you don’t. Included either way.
How it goes
About a minute, start to finish. Nothing to install, and a photograph of the original print taken on your phone works perfectly well.
Send the photograph
Lay the print flat in daylight and photograph it, or upload a scan. Either is fine.
Pay once
Choose how many photographs you have. No account to make, nothing recurring, and credits that never expire.
Keep it
Download the full-size photograph, clean and unmarked, to print, frame and pass on.
Price
You buy a small number of restorations and use them whenever you like. There is no membership, nothing renews, and nothing expires.
Credits are held against your email address, never expire, and there is nothing to cancel. If a restoration isn’t right — a face changed, damage missed — reply to your receipt and we will redo it.
And then
a book of them
A restored photograph is a file on a phone. A book is a thing on a shelf that someone picks up. Yours, printed properly and bound — one photograph to a spread, so each gets a page of its own to sit on. Posted to you, delivery included in the price.
Fifteen photographs fills a book. Softcover from $26.50, hardcover from $37.00, in three sizes up to 28 cm square.
Restore them one at a time, whenever you find another. The book waits until you are ready.
Make a bookQuestions
Do I need a scanner?
No. A photograph taken on your phone is enough. Lay the print flat, use soft daylight rather than a flash, avoid shadows and glare, and fill the frame with the print.
Will they still look like themselves?
This is the thing we care about most. Restoration can drift into invention, smoothing a face into someone who never existed, and we deliberately hold back from that. You know this face better than any machine does, so if the result isn’t right, tell us and we will redo it.
What happens to my photographs?
They are used to produce your restoration and nothing else. They are never sold, never shared, and never used to train anything. Ask us and we will delete them.
Is this a subscription?
No. You pay once for a set number of restorations. There is nothing to cancel and no second charge unless you choose to come back.
How damaged is too damaged?
Less often than people expect. Heavy tearing, water damage and mould marks are usually recoverable, and so are prints that have faded almost to nothing. The gallery above is a fair sample of what arrives and what goes back. If yours looks worse, tell us before you buy and we will say honestly whether it is worth it.