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Christmas Hours

PixelFIX photo restoration and photo retouching services will be closed on the following dates over the coming Christmas and summer holiday period. We will be open on all other dates as per normal. Please call or email me for additional information or if you wish to make an appointment. 

Dec 24th – Closed
Dec 25th – Closed
Dec 26th – Closed
Dec 27th – Closed
Jan 1st – Closed
Jan 2nd – Closed
Jan 3rd – Closed

Jan 9th – 15th Closed

Do you have a wedding day disaster?

Do you have a wedding day disaster?

Jenny brought me this wonderful wedding photo, her brother was the photographer, for restoration. It had some bad copper coloured stains on the dress and skin areas. The difficulty is to remove the stain without loosing any detail in the dress and veil areas.

I used channel mixer adjustment layer and curves adjustment layers to remove the offending stained area and then clean the rest of the wedding photo using stamp and healing tools. A final sharpened layer and the bride is now looking her best again and the photo is restored.

If you have any wedding photos that you would like restored then contact me 022 6373533 or click here for a free quote

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New tool to play with.

 

This week saw the arrival of my new scanner. The old one was an HP model but that failed on me a couple of months ago so this new Epson model does large format negative scanning as well as photo and document scanning. The quality is really much improved over the old HP model. Good photo restorations all start with the quality of the original scan and so PixelFIX photo restorations will now have a much better starting point.

How do you bring back the colour? 

How do you bring back the colour?

Edward from Singapore asked me to restore and bring back the colour to this wonderful family photo, from the seventies. It was his fathers photo and he wanted to put it back up on display again.  There was a lot of work involved and many different layers in Photoshop, but the finished result was a definite success. Edward was very happy with the photo restoration. He and his family are once again enjoying this wonderful portrait.

Thank you Pixelbox for the awesome job well done! We’ll definitely work together in the near future and I’m sure to recommend you services to my peers. Can’t wait to receive the parcel!

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looking back over the past 12 months

I was just looking back over the last 12 months of photo restorations and there have been some wonderful photos this year. It’s great to know that so many people fell the same as I do about precious photos from our past. people not just from Auckland but from all over New Zealand. This was a great photo brought in by Sarah, one of nearly 60 photos that I restored for her. Definitely model material here! 

Let’s be colourful

 

Grant emailed me and asked for this wonderful old photograph to be brought back to life and to add colour back to the photo. He was able to give me very clear guidelines as to what the colours used to be. So using this information I was able to paint back in the colours, one by one. Below is a screen shot of the different  layers and colours used to paint in the colour. Everything down to the eyes lips eyebrows and background all get individual attention.

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There was 15 layers for the colour painting alone on this restoration.

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