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Here at Altered Images, we offer a range of services
designed to get the best out of your photographs
at affordable prices.
Small or large, your request will be met with expert
advice, individual attention and innovative solutions.
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Damaged photographs, can happen to us
all. That precious photograph of a wedding or even holiday, can
and do get damaged.
Whether its water or mold damage, or general
wear and tear. Photographs get damaged.
That lovely framed photograph is accidentally
dropped and the glass breaks, but the photograph as stuck to the
glass and when you come to peel it off, part of it is still
stuck to the broken pieces.
The photograph you keep in your purse or wallet,
Its become creased and dog eared after years of being sat on,
squashed and handed around.
These are some of the ways we damage photographs.
The most frustrating part is, when you damage a
photograph, you no longer have the negative. Don't despair, give
me a call or drop me an email. I can repair it. Your damaged
photograph can be restored to be as good as new, but still look
like an old photograph.
Refers to anything that
is done to alter the appearance of a
photograph once it had been taken.
Present day, people think of it as referring to the
airbrushing of a magazine photograph to make the model more
beautiful and slimmer. Commonly called 'Photoshopped'
Whatever your opinion is on celebrities having their appearance
changed before they allow their photographs to be used in
advertising.
All photographs can be improved by being retouched
in someway, by the removal of a person or object. The removal of
wrinkles and blemishes from
someone's face. To reducing someone's waist line or other body
parts to enhance their appearance.
As the photographs above show, it can and does improve a
photograph.
So whether its red eye, your thumb over the lens or just
something in the photograph you want removing. Or may be your
products could do with a little refinement to their appearance
before you use them in a brochure or leaflet. Then, Altered Images
can provide the answer.
It's a way of adding to the photograph to
highlight the subject, to add value to it in a visual way.
Whether it's adding that certain something to a
wedding photograph or a fairy tale enchantment to a snap shot of
Grandma reading a bedtime story. Or adding a touch of fun to a
normal photograph.
Add a touch of glamour to a
photograph of your daughter, girlfriend or wife. Better
still, inject some humour into a photograph of father and son.
Enhanced photographs make an ordinary photograph
into something special.
Is just a collection of
photographs arranged together to create another picture.
Over the years, I have done numerous montage
collections to celebrate birthdays of friends and family and of
course customers.
In most you will see photographs of the subject
at various ages through out their life, together with
members of their family. In some I have added their age, in
others I have not.
A montage makes the ideal present to give on that
special birthday. Whether it be a birth, 21st, 30th, 40th or
even a 60th
Lets not stop at birthdays, what about a day at
the Races or the Seaside, or even a collection of pets,
grandchildren. The list is endless.
What is photo manipulation? It's the art of applying
image editing techniques to photographs in order to
create and illusion or deception ( in contrast to a mere
enhancement or correction) after the original
photographing to place.
Photo manipulation is as old as photography
itself. Photo manipulation has been regularly used
to deceive or persuade viewers, or for improved
storytelling and self-expression. Often even subtle and
discreet changes can have profound impacts on how we
interpret or judge a photograph which is why learning
when manipulation has occurred is important. As early as
the American Civil War, photographs were published as
engravings based on more than one negative.
Joseph Stalin made use of photo retouching for
propaganda purposes. On May 5, 1920 his predecessor
Vladimir Lenin held a speech for Soviet troops that Leon
Trotsky attended. Stalin had Trotsky retouched out of a
photograph showing Trotsky in attendance.
agenda.
In more recent years photo manipulation as been used
extensively in by newspapers and magazines who
manipulate photographs of celebrates/models to make them
younger, slimmer etc.
Not all photo manipulation is bad, it can be fun and
creative as seen in the examples above. They make great
presents.
Prior to the digital age of photography. Cameras used film to
record the subject, it varied in size depending on the camera and is till available
today. Then came the 35mm slide, which those of a certain age
will remember.
Now we are in the digital age, people are having
their slides scanned and put onto CDs so they can be put onto a
laptop or even a smart phone.
Like wise I am being asked to do the same with negatives.
All negatives and slides are scanned at high resolution either
600 or 1200 dpi depending on the size of the negative.
Old film and slides are often covered with dust and scratches.
The scanner I use is able to remove these defects during scanning
with Digital ICE technology.
I will also correct colour balance if needed and retouch any
blemishes not removed by the ICE technology. Something you don't
get with large commercial companies.
Digital ICE technology uses infrared light, which is
able to detect dust, hairs, finger prints or scratches.
As infrared light is invisible it cannot reproduce the
colour information of the photo and therefore only
delivers the defect information to the scanner software.
The photo is illuminated by the cold light lamp and
the colour information of the image is captured and
delivered to the scanner software. The photo is
illuminated by the infrared lamp and only the defect
information is captured and delivered to the scanner
software.
The two images (colour information and defects) are
compared and the defects are removed by means of
algorithms. The result is an image without defects.