Hi All

I am looking at starting a new project which will involve restoring old photographs of mines and mine related images.

Of course the image will always remain the property of the original owner, and after they are complete I would return them to the owners, but I would like to keep a copy for myself.

My plan is to as best as I can remove old scratch marks, stains, washed out mono chrome or colours, sharpen, clarify and generally make them look a lot better.

If anyone wants to help me out I need either original negatives, or prints, if those don't exist then a digital copy would be OK but they are harder to work with as a lot of the original data is already removed due to compression. I already have all the scanning equipment for both negatives and prints. I can scan negatives from 110 up to about 50 mm square, and prints up to A3 size at very high resolutions of 1200 dpi. if a digital image is provided then the minimum image size needs to be at least 1980 x 1080 pixels, anything smaller than this would just not look good when restored.

Hope you can help, thanks in advance.

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think you will find most folks will do it them self's these days with photo shop

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I see lots of old photos on here in the history sections of the albums, and most of them are really old horrible photos in desperate need of a restore, but the images are too small and already compressed.

I am of course offering this service free only cost would be the shipping of the original prints or negs.

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If people had large original photographs or negatives they would be publishing them. Most are working with copies of copies.

I see lots of old photos on here in the history sections of the albums, and most of them are really old horrible photos in desperate need of a restore, but the images are too small and already compressed.

All in your opinion and thanks for the offer, but no thanks! ;D
I would restore them myself if I thought they really needed it, but in most cases the aged patina adds to the atmosphere/authenticity of the scene depicted.
One thing I and others would definately NOT want to see is them appearing on some shitty FB page or sold to the Daily Fail, or the like for profit! 😉

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All in your opinion and thanks for the offer, but no thanks! ;D
I would restore them myself if I thought they really needed it, but in most cases the aged patina adds to the atmosphere/authenticity of the scene depicted.
One thing I and others would definately NOT want to see is them appearing on some shitty FB page or sold to the Daily Fail, or the like for profit! ;)

Thanks Jimbo, although I should say I have never sold a photo to the Daily Fail for profit or any other rag mag for that matter, and would only repost the images with the owners consent.

Which shitty FB group do you refer to.

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