Welcome to PhotoValet's photo restoration London operations in Kensington and also in Marbella, Spain.
We bring your family memories back to life as we fix old photos that have become damaged or faded over the years. Send a photo by email or by post to get a free photo restoration quotation, without commitment, to see how easily and cheaply it can be done.
Email us at editor@photovalet.co.uk to talk about your photos. We will be happy to give you advice at no charge.
Photo Restoration and Repair
We can restore photos or repair photos, making improvements that can return them to their original glory - or sometimes make them even better than the original. Photo restoration is especially important for old black and white photos and can be really valuable in genealogy projects which include photo records of the family. But modern colour photos can also often benefit a lot - many colour photos of the sixties and seventies are already developing green or blue tinges as they fade. The original colours can be restored.
Many photo restorations can be done quite cheaply but make a huge difference to old photos. For example, a small, faded, torn, black and white photo, perhaps now hidden in an album, can be changed into a larger, clearer photo worth displaying on the wall.
You can restore photos
like this for about
£8 to £15 depending
on the amount
of work to be done.
This photo of a fine soldierly grandfather
had very nearly faded away entirely but
PhotoValet was able to rescue it for
posterity, to the joy of the family.
It was a time-consuming restoration. For
a restoration like this, you can expect the
restoration cost to be about £50.
Colour photos often need to be
restored because their colours
fade. This photo had also been
stored in an album which had
imprinted on it a pattern that needed
to be removed. This photo
restoration cost about £15.
In addition to having faded colours,
the composition of this photo was
poor, so we added some more
landscape above Dad's head.
We can restore photos like this
for about £15 to £20.
Some photos involve a fairly major photo restoration and could cost from £30 to £70, depending on how many parts of the photo are to be restored:
If you have been following the BBC television genealogy series: "Who Do You Think You Are ?" and saw the programme dedicated to the family roots of Kim Cattrall (acclaimed star of Sex And The City), you will recognise this wedding photo. Both 'before' and 'after' versions of the photo appeared in the programme. PhotoValet was pleased to do the necessary restoration.
(You will see that the bride's face has not been restored. It would have been technically possible to "paint" in a face, but since no other photo of the bride was available, this would have involved guesswork that the progamme producers did not want. So the bride remains modestly hidden behind her veil !)
In the Pink !
A restoration does not
have to stay with the original
colours. Sometimes a little
creativity works wonders.
There were lots of small
scratches on this photo
so the restoration cost £40.
See MORE PHOTO RESTORATION EXAMPLES.
To have a photo restored or enhanced, go to the Order & Pay page for detailed instructions. It covers the whole process from getting a quotation, to receiving back your enhanced photos, and making payment.
But you can be assured that you will not pay anything until you have seen a proof version of the improved photos and you are happy with the result.
Do your photo restoration now - before the photos deteriorate even more. It's best to restore photos before you store them for future generations - your genealogy efforts will be appreciated in years to come.
If you would like some suggestions for how to make best use of your photos once they have been restored, then visit our Printing&Framing page.
To fix old photos, restore photos, enhance photos, merely digitize photos, or if you have any questions on our digital photo restoration London or Marbella service or photo enhancement, then please contact us at: editor@photovalet.co.uk.
