4/06/2011

Photo Restoration Services - Things You Need to Know

By Jennifer Hoskins


All those old photos carrying your family and extended family's memories are now staring at you, begging for help. You want those old and precious, but damaged photos to be back to how they were in their heydays, or even better. You are right, photo restoration services are your best bet to making those old mugged pictured livelier than they ever were, by editing them using special programs.

Millions of people today use photo restoration to get back their old memories in perfect shape. In fact it has become a very profitable business for many services. Some of the restoration services seem to be so ridiculously cheap, that you want to edit perfectly fine photos, just for the heck of it. However, you should know by now that cheap services need not really be good enough for you.

Your photos are very, very important to you, so it is better to take note of a few things before handing them over to a photo restoration service. One of the most common schemes employed by these services to squeeze some extra money out of you is to offer extra features, by using those jargon words such as red eye correction or tonal correction and make it seem a sophisticated job.

Know this. All these so called premium features are and should be a part of the photo restoration services being offered to you. These things are not at all difficult to do. In fact, some of the things such as correcting red eye don't take anything more than a single mouse click to be done using image editing software such adobe Photoshop.

These things should actually be done manual to achieve the best results. However, many cheap restoration services don't employ experts to do the job. They just train a few people to use Photoshop or similar software and get the job done very cheaply, while charging you blatantly. Before you give your photos for correction, ensure that they have professional photo editors doing the job.

A particular photo restoration service may seem to offer to save you the job of scanning your photo by doing it themselves for free. There is really no benefit for you in that. You can do the job with your own scanner at home and it will still come out the same way. Why do you need to shed extra dollars for a job you can do yourself. You can scan them and mail it to them to do the restoration job.

In order to earn some extra money, many photo restoration services may offer a print out of the restored photos for free. The question to ask is why you need a print out of those photos if you are going to share it online. This is nothing more than a marketing gimmick to attract you to their photo services.

Also, if you really do need a print out of the photo, you are better doing it yourself using a high quality photo paper. Your vendor will mostly use a normal paper to do it, which is useless. Research some photo restoration companies online before giving your photos to one of them. you will get a better idea about the average fees for photo restoration.




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