6/15/2011

What the Photo Restoration Vendors Don't Tell You

By Jennifer Hoskins


Using photo restoration services to make your old photos look like new is a great option to preserve your old memories. Indeed there are many such services available in your neighborhood. However, before you commit to a particular service, there are few things you should know about them that will help you get the best value out of them.

There will be many restoration services which will promise to enhance your photos in such a way that they will look even better than the original. They will also offer you certain free services going by the name of tone correction, red eye correction and the likes. You must know that most of the photo manipulation is done using photo editing software.

These services are of course, experts in using software such as Adobe Photoshop and will do a better job than you can do. However, some of the free services that they offer usually something that take merely seconds using a single click of a button. Don't let that be a factor when choosing a photo service.

On the other side of the coin, some photo restoration services will call these same free services as premium features and charge your extra money for the job. This is a mean tactic used by them and again, they don't take more than a few clicks here and there to do the job. Tell the vendor that you won't pay for these features or else go for another vendor.

Also remember that there is a lot of software in the market that does photo manipulation such as Photoshop and GIMP that will do the automatic corrections. However, you go to specialized photo restoration services because they will do a lot of job manually and many of the corrections are really difficult and time consuming to do.

Make sure that the service that you are subscribing to does its job manually and not just using automated software. Sometimes, using automatic procedures does not produce the best results. In these cases, manual changing allows you to change the photos shape and color with as much customization as you want.

Some photo restoration services will tell you that they give away a free print of the edited photo along with the service. Many such vendors actually use very poor quality papers for printing. Hence, even if you have to pay for a print, make sure that you photos are printed using very high quality photo papers and printers.

A free print of your restored photo shouldn't be a factor when you are considering one vendor among many. You should also check out the average price for photo restoration in the market. Many vendors tend to take advantage of customers and charge them much more than they should.

Considering all the factors mentioned above will ensure that you get the best value from the money you spend for quality photo restoration.




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