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Faded Photos & Faded Slides
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Got any 35mm slides that look
like the one on the left? If you are doing the
scanning work on your pictures and 35mm slides
yourself, how do you plan on restoring the color
to these faded photos?
Old-Photo's prices are so reasonable that you should
really leave this kind of color work to the
experts. Color adjustment is a standard feature
included in our scanning and Slide Show creation
service. We will do our utmost to make each of
your photos look the very best possible.
Standard Color
Restoration for faded photos.
Not all faded photos will
respond the same way.
Every effort will be made to produce pleasing
color, when possible.
No extra
charge.
| Before Color Restoration | After Color Restoration |
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| Before Color Restoration | After Color Restoration |
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In some cases, such as when the slides have lost the blue film, we can't do very much with them. You have a choice of:
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| 3. Using an auto filter with not very good results. |
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We do use this filter with pretty fair results in a lot of cases but sometimes it seems like nothing will help a very bad slide.
Slide Deterioration
Have you gone through your old
slides lately? You may be in for a very rude
awakening: they may have deteriorated
remarkably. You may find that they have faded,
been scratched, or has the beginnings of fungus
growing on the surface.
The two biggest factors affecting the life of a
slide are improper storage and handling.
Excess light, heat and moisture will affect the
dye color layers in the slides. Sorry to say,
they do not affect the layers equally, so you
will find that most slides will have a faded
color shift toward either a red or blue hue. The
process may be slow at first but once it starts,
you had better do something quickly because it
is all down hill from here.
Touching the film with your fingers encourages
fungus growth. Use of different types of
cleaners to remove fingerprints will also cause
the slides to deteriorate faster.
If you used Kodachrome film, you are probably
lucky because it used a more stable dye process.
Kodachrome was developed in 1935. We have had
the 35mm Kodachrome slide since 1936. The
Ektachrome films and the E process were
developed later. It evolved, down through the
years to the E-6 process that we have today.
Most faded slides will be from the early E
process films. The stability of the technology
was not as advanced as it is today.
Photo Paper Pictures
Photo Paper Pictures will also deteriorate over time. Each day heat, humidity, chemicals in Album papers and cardboard boxes, or exhaust fumes in your garage are silently destroying your priceless photos. Colors in pictures fade, faces turn orange or green or the paper turns yellow. Preserve your photos and 35mm slides SOON by transferring to Digital format. The longer you wait, the more pictures you will lose forever. Your slideshows from your smallest pictures and slides will view as large as your TV screen when you play them on your DVD player.
Before Faded Photo Color Restoration
