Digital image restoration

Digital restoration is the practice of restoring the appearance of a digital copy of a physical poster, photograph or graphic image which has been damaged by natural, man-made, or environmental causes or simply affected by age or neglect.

Our digital image restoration process uses a variety of image editing techniques to remove visible damage and aging effects from digital copies of physical images. We use raster graphics editors to repair the appearance of the digital images and add to the digital copy of the photo where pieces of the physical image are torn or missing. Evidence of dirt, scratches, and other signs of age are removed from the digital image manually, by painting over them meticulously (in some cases on a pixal by pixal basis). Unwanted color casts are removed and the image’s contrast or sharpening may be altered in an attempt to restore some of the contrast range or detail that is believed to be in the original physical image. In addition image processing techniques such as image enhancement and image restoration are also used when required to ensure the highest quality image restoration possible.

We have provided you an example of some of our work.