Thursday, March 24, 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.

Photo restoration is such a common way to make your old photos look better today, that it is a mini industry today. You will find such a service at nearly every corner possible. Some of these services are very cheap. You would even be tempted to restore those photos which are perfectly fine. Wait! You know cheap doesn't mean best, right? You might have heard that before, but it still true, as most clich's are.

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.

Here is a piece of information for you. Most of these "premium features" should be nothing more than free. In fact, these should be part of the photo restoration services that these people offer. The reason I say this is because things such as correcting the tone can be done with a single mouse click using Photoshop or really any image editing software that they may be using.

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.

You might find a photo restoration service that offers to scan your old photos for you and then edit them. for all you know, those guys use the same scanner that you use at home and then charge you extra for it. It is always better to scan the photos yourself and then mail it to them and save some money that you don't need to part with anyways.

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.

Even if you do need a print out a photo, you better do it using a high quality photo paper, unlike the cheap paper used by your vendor. These are some of the things that you should be aware of, to get the best deal from your vendor. Before zeroing on a particular service, research good photo restoration companies online to get a good idea of the standard rates and features.




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