Volunteer for Operation Photo Rescue
Operation Photo Rescue has worldwide volunteers photographers, image restoration artists and graphic designers, who restore photos, for those damaged in natural disasters like floods, or house fires.
For a paid service, Photographs Forever can restore photos that are faded or discoloured or accidentally ripped. Experts can also remove stains, by digitally removing mould damage and improving contrast.
How to Restore Old Damaged Photos
If you have old damaged family photos, this company can restore them by removing scratches and dust, and repairing missing parts (you’re sent a preview of the images before purchase).
Or sent in bulk to Vintage Photo Lab to receive a digital album to store on a disk or on the cloud. It can take faded photos, slide disks, old scrap books and telegrams.
What to Do with Unwanted Photos
If you have hundreds of photos of people you don’t remember, chopped-off heads or clouds from aeroplanes, just throw them out. You can’t recycle photos due to the paper type. Don’t be sentimental (have a little blessing ceremony, it can be good to release photos from past relationships, to help you move on).
And don’t worry anything bad will happen. Photos are printed in newspapers and magazines every day, and they get thrown out. They are just photographs, at the end of the day.
