Repair
Tears, creases, missing corners, water damage, mold stains, foxing, adhesive residue from old albums. Reconstructed by hand, with the surrounding texture matched.
Digital Cleanup & Restoration
Damaged, faded, or torn? We bring it back — bespoke digital restoration.
From dust and scratches to torn corners, faded tones, and full colorization of historical photographs. Every project is hand-restored by a human eye to honor the original's character. Quoted individually, scoped on intake.
Bespoke
Every project scoped and quoted individually
RestoreCleanup + repair
RecoverColor + tone
ReimagineColorization
Bespoke quote
Hand-restored
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A photograph that's seen a hundred years deserves more than a one-size filter. Our restoration work is done by hand, frame by frame, with the same conservator's eye we bring to museum-grade scanning and reproduction. We honor what the original wanted to be — the light, the mood, the character — and quietly take away what time put in the way.
What we restore
From a smudge to a missing corner.
Every restoration job is different, but most fall in three buckets — and we routinely combine them. Whatever shape your originals are in, we'll scope what's recoverable and what would be honest to leave alone.
Cleanup
Dust, scratches, fingerprints, emulsion cracks, paper grain artifacts, print pattern moiré. Removed without softening detail or smoothing skin into plastic.
Recovery
Faded color, shifted tones, yellowed paper, magenta cast, sun-bleached skies. Brought back to a balanced original — or to a deliberate period look if that's what fits the piece.
A second life for monochrome work
Colorization.
Black-and-white photographs reimagined in color — period-accurate skin tones, era-appropriate fabric, researched palettes for historical pieces. We can also re-color photos whose original color has shifted so far it reads as monochrome again. Done with restraint: the goal is honoring the moment, not adding what wasn't there.
Bespoke pricing per project, quoted after we see the originals.
The process
From intake to final master.
A linear flow that mirrors the way physical conservators work — assess first, never overcommit, deliver with the original intact.
Assess
We review the originals and scope what's possible. Free at the project level; deeper assessments are folded into the quote.
Cleanup
Master scan first, then dust, scratch, tear, and stain work — handled in a non-destructive pipeline so every step is reversible.
Tone & color
Faded tones brought back, casts removed, balance restored. Colorization happens in this pass if the project calls for it.
Deliver
16-bit TIFF master + display-ready JPGs via the client portal. Original physical pieces return untouched.
Why bespoke
No two restorations are the same.
Damage doesn't standardize. One photograph might need an hour of dust work; the next, a week of reconstruction. We don't pretend otherwise with off-the-shelf pricing tiers — every project is reviewed, scoped, and quoted individually so you only pay for the work the piece actually needs.
Digital restoration projects
Tell us about your project.