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Watercolour

14th August 2013/0 Comments/in Watecolour /by

Watercolour in Old Township photos. I have been painting with watercolours for many years but never thought to go digital. Everything I do is just a hobby to me like the photo restorations I do to earn a little extra money. I am the best in the country for restoring photos, the cheapest and most […]

Graffiti Wedding photo

10th November 2012/1 Comment/in Photo Enhancement, Photo Manipulation /by

Graffiti Wedding photo manipulation. A customer asked: “Just been looking at your website and wondered if you could help. I love all our wedding photos but want to try and create a really contemporary feel to one of them. I got the idea from looking at some other examples of wedding photography in particular with graffiti […]

Playing with colours

18th October 2012/0 Comments/in Photo Colourising, Photo Manipulation /by

Photoshop Colourising. Adding colour to old photographs can have an amazing effect, indeed removing colour from more modern pictures can have much the same result. Many photos used for advertising will use splash colours to get the viewers attention, they remove all the colours except the saleable item and your eye is immediately drawn to it. The […]

Kings Own Terriers

3rd October 2012/1 Comment/in Photo Colourising, Photo Restoration /by

Kings Own Terriers 1914. What a fabulous photo sent into me for Restoration & Colourising. It’s of the Kings Own Terriers in 1914 where the lads stood on guard watching for German saboteurs trying to disrupt our rail services. The photo of these young territorial soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment was taken […]

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Old school photo

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Four Into one

21st September 2019/0 Comments/in Photo Manipulation /by

Watercolour

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Graffiti Wedding photo

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Playing with colours

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Kings Own Terriers

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Old school photo

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Four Into one

21st September 2019/0 Comments/in Photo Manipulation /by

Four into one works really good when you do it properly. I was in between doing a couple of big jobs and decided to have a break and do this one for a friend. I was asked if I could stitch four photos together that were taken on what I think was a romantic holiday break.
There’s a lot of phones available now that can do a pretty good job of taking a panorama but if the opportunity isn’t there you have to compromise and take the best shots you can. In the image below you will see the four individual photos sent to me. The images had varying focus and exposures but the four into one merge worked pretty good and after mucking about with the sunset and some unusual reflections in the water the picture looks like a true panorama. Customer is ecstatic so I am too.

Watercolour

14th August 2013/0 Comments/in Watecolour /by

Watercolour in Old Township photos.

I have been painting with watercolours for many years but never thought to go digital. Everything I do is just a hobby to me like the photo restorations I do to earn a little extra money. I am the best in the country for restoring photos, the cheapest and most imaginative. So I have decided to add Watercolour to my services to offer people more scope for their photo requirements.
Watercolour on Old Photos isn’t an easy thing to do, there’s lots of manipulations required to prepare the photo. Lots of filtering and much needed imagination. Of course you can simulate watercolour with paint programmes within perhaps 5 mins, they look cheap and do not carry the effects very well. Personally I will be using an advanced drawing board inline with Photoshop and using home made digital brushes that allow you to paint exactly like you would on a physical canvas. Plenty of washes, lots of spills, details and ink sketching will all add to some great looking memories for your photos.
This photo example shows the styles I will be applying, and as you can see, this will look better with buildings rather than a family group photo. Having said that, I will be happy to take on any commission and have a go at serving up what you want. The cost will as usual be pretty cheap, I have no overheads and my time is my own. This example is rather complex though I would guess on average a sum of just £30 would be in order. Ask for a quote, it costs nothing to do that and if you haven’t guessed already, the photo will not require any restorations as they would be hidden beneath the watercolour. You can contact me via the ‘Contact’ tab above or visit my Facebook site here.

Graffiti Wedding photo

10th November 2012/1 Comment/in Photo Enhancement, Photo Manipulation /by

Graffiti Wedding photo manipulation.

A customer asked:
“Just been looking at your website and wondered if you could help. I love all our wedding photos but want to try and create a really contemporary feel to one of them. I got the idea from looking at some other examples of wedding photography in particular with graffiti behind in black and white or next to an old fashioned phone box etc”

So I browsed for Urban Wedding, Fantasy wedding, and Graffiti wedding to get some ideas to offer her as samples. However I did ask the lady if she was nuts 🙂 but once I got into looking around Google I discovered that this idea is quite popular. So it turns out that she was not nuts and indeed is a very beautiful young mum with a gorgeous baby and handsome husband. It’s a trendy thing to have done and I got carried away with my ideas for her. Photo Manipulations are great fun and in this case was something new for me to get my teeth into. She was amazed at how much time I allowed for discussing things with her but I think you will agree that the results were fantastic. The one I have done with the 3D hands freaked her out but otherwise she loved them all. Oh, and she likes old telephone boxes.
After the initial selections of the subjects this method is quite easy to fit people into any background you would require, so once you have the first one made the rest are very inexpensive.
Have a scroll down the page as there’s plenty of variety for you to look at.

Playing with colours

18th October 2012/0 Comments/in Photo Colourising, Photo Manipulation /by

Photoshop Colourising.

Adding colour to old photographs can have an amazing effect, indeed removing colour from more modern pictures can have much the same result. Many photos used for advertising will use splash colours to get the viewers attention, they remove all the colours except the saleable item and your eye is immediately drawn to it.
The same can be done with your old B&W’s, add colour to the main subject and it becomes the very thing advertisers seek to offer and tempt you with.

B&W or Colour?

This photoshopped example below could be mistaken for an old picture, maybe around the 1940’s, that has had a splash of colour added to the main subject. It’s actually a modern day photo turned into B&W then colour added for impact. A little more photoshopping was needed when I did this to remove some tell tail signs of its true age like for instance, a reflection in the door was of a modern collapsible chair. Which ever way you choose to look at it, the visual impact is quite impressive and the great thing is that this can be applied to many of your old or new photos.

Kings Own Terriers

3rd October 2012/1 Comment/in Photo Colourising, Photo Restoration /by

Kings Own Terriers 1914.

What a fabulous photo sent into me for Restoration & Colourising. It’s of the Kings Own Terriers in 1914 where the lads stood on guard watching for German saboteurs trying to disrupt our rail services.
The photo of these young territorial soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment was taken around August/September 1914 when the group were guarding the Great Western Railway in Kent before they were sent to the Western Front on May 3rd 1915. Some were gassed at Ypres in Belgium in 1917 but survived before returning home in 1919. Their average age was only 19 as they went away in 1914.
All these lads got home safely, much against the odds of that war. More information and photos on the 1st/4th Kings Own Terriers at the foot of this page.

This is the original which looks ok at first viewing, but when you get closer it is quite badly damaged.
You can view this on Wikimedia http://goo.gl/lTwPjk

This is the completed restoration which has been part colourised.
Partial colourising keeps it old and atmospheric so I left most of the trees and grass in B&W, but the little drops of colour do the trick.

The 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (King’s Own Terriers) engagements during WW1:

4th Aug 1914 – Mobilised at Barrow in Furness.
Winter 1914-1915 – Stationed in Southern England, some guarding the Great Western railways.
3rd May 1915 – Arrived in France, Landed at Boulogne. Joined 154th Infantry Brigade.
15 June 1915 – Battle of Festubert
7 January 1916 – Joined 164th Infantry Brigade of 55th West Lancashire Division.
8 August 1916 – The Somme: Battle of Guillemont Attack on Trones Wood.
11 September 1916 – The Somme: Battle of Ginchy Attack on Delville Wood.
27 September 1916 – The Somme: Battle of Flers.
28 September 1916 – Attack near Mametz.
23 December 1916 – Raid on Cameroon Trench.
9 June 1917 – Raid on Ibex Trench.
31 July 1917 – 3rd Battle of Ypres: Battle of Pilckem Ridge Attack on Wieltje.
20 September 1917 – 3rd Battle of Ypres: Battle of the Menin Road Ridge.
November 1917 -Battle of Cambrai.
20 November 1917 – Attack near Guillemont Farm.
30 November 1917 – Repulse of Counter attack near Epéhy.
March and April 1918 – Retreat.
9 – 11 April 1918 – Battle of Estaires – First Defence of Givenchy.
26 April 1918 – Counter attack on Givenchy Craters.
24 August 1918 – Givenchy Craters.
October and November 1918 – Advance to Victory.
4 November 1918 – Battle of the Sambre – Advance on Ath.
12 December 1918 – Moved to Brussels.
April 1919 – Returned to England.

Some photos from the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum.

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Old school photo

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Four Into one

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