Photo Restorations & Colorization Using Photoshop

What do you mean restored?

Do you have photos that have seen their fair share of damage or has faded over the years? Do you have an old favorite black & white photo that you have always wished to see naturally colorized? Well you have landed on the correct webpage my friend! Hit the ‘Contact Now!’ button to get in touch with our Photoshop specialist who can bring your photo and memories back to life. What follows are some examples of this work. If you’d like to see frequent new posts of this nature, you can always follow me on Instagram or Facebook. And if you have many old photos and are worried about disrepair, we also offer digitalization services which can include repairs.

This photo is of my grandfather “D” when he was much younger. The original (to the left) was faded and a little blurry and within minutes I had it looking like a much better black and white image. I chose to colorize it, which is the featured image you saw above.

Some of the best uses of Photoshop, in my opinion, are the spot healing brush and clone stamp tools. These two tools can make literal tears, scratches, marks, and dust vanish. Take a look at the photo below:

This is a photo of my great-grandfather and one of my first tries at colorization. The photo on the left was the original, scanned. His wife, my great-grandmother, my Nona, had this photo out on her dresser for many years, and it was heavily bent up, damaged, and faded. After scanning it, I used the spot-healing brush and the clone stamp tool to quite literally erase and blend in the bends and tears.

After that I thought it would be a fun image to colorize so to begin that process I turned it into a grayscale image. The background in this image is without color as I chose to only add color to my grandfather. Colorization is done by making precise selections and adjusting the hue & saturation levels. Then a little “burning” to set the image.