Volunteer for Operation Photo Rescue
If you have photographic skills, volunteer for Operation Photo Rescue. This worldwide outfit lets people whose photos have been ruined through fire or flood, to be restored to their former glory, at no cost.
An ideal way to help if you’re a photographer, graphic designer or image restoration artist. Insurance can cover natural disasters and house fires, but can’t restore photos.
For a paid service, Photographs Forever can restore photos that are faded or discoloured or accidentally ripped in half. These experts can also remove spots, stains, marks, creases and tears, as well as digitally remove mould damage and improve contrast etc.
How to Restore Old Damaged Photos
If you have lots of old family photos that are not in good condition, this company will take damaged photos and restore them, by removing scratches and dust, and repairing missing parts, to bring old memories back to life.
You can be sent a preview of your fixed image before purchase. Here are some of the artist’s work:
For lots of photos in bulk, you can them to Vintage Photo Lab (there’s always a risk, but they’re just photos), and they can return you a lovely digital album of all your shots, which you can then store to a disk or on the cloud, for safekeeping.
This company can take old faded photos, slide disks and vintage albums, along with old scrap books and telegrams.
Don’t get sentimental about throwing out photos you no longer need or like. Nobody needs to keep photos of chopped-off heads or clouds from aeroplanes.
And sometimes having a little ‘blessing ceremony’ and just releasing photos from past relationships etc, can help you to move on.
Nothing bad will happen. Consider all the photographs in newspapers and magazines, that are recycled each day. They get tossed in recycling bins.
Just keep the photos you love, and display them where you can see them. Rather than have loads of dusty photo albums, that are never looked at.
