Rhea came to me with a very specific set of requests. The first photo below is the original she sent me and then I produced the final restored image that met the requirements. If you have anything specific that you would like to change or have restored in a photo then please contact me as Rhea did and list your requirements. I will always try my utmost to meet the brief where possible. R. Could you please provide me a quote to do the following with the attachment: 1. Remove male subject from photo 2. Brighten/lighten the female subject 3. Crop female subject so that the bottom of the photo is just below the V-neck line of her shirt 4. Change background (not sure what but value your suggestions – I visualize a light background?) 5. Semi-gloss finish 6. I don’t require a printed image, just a high quality jpeg file (approx. 1mb) PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click ...

Kath asked me to clean up this old family photo from what looks to be early 20th century, if any one has a better idea about the date I would be grateful to know. I converted it to black and white before restoring and cleaning up the sky area and added some more contrast and clarity to make this old photo shine again. Kath- The restoration looks great, thank you.    PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

It is always nice to get positive feedback on the work that I do. Below are a few of the many emails from satisfied customers that have used PixelFIX Photo Restoration Services. Thank you for your email, i have just managed to find time to look at the photos and mum loves it so we will make payment next week tuesday if thats okay with you. Regards souls Looks great thanks Richard! I'll have to get back to you with the measurements of the photo (just need one) by tomorrow or Wednesday, depending on when I can get access to the photo frame again. I'll email you once I know and go from there. Cheers, Hayden Thanks heaps, I've liked on fb and added a review to the google site. I'm really pleased with the service and results. Rebecca Speirs Hi Richard, I hope you've had a happy Easter as well as doing another wonderful job on my photos. I am indeed very happy with the coloured photograph of the lady as well as the rest of the last four photos on batch 3. Ple...

Facebook has been updating it's self again. Cleaver Facebook. What do you think of the new look for the PixelFIX Facebook page? PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

This is a quick and dirty tutorial on making a mask from a single colour channel in Photoshop. Below is a B&W photo that needs some restoration, it has some bad damage on it. Most of the damage is the redish discolouration. So in order to fix just this area it would be real handy if we could make a mask of just that area so we can correct it. Fortunately there is a way. Step 1. Use the channel mixer adjustment layer to highlight which channel has the damage, using the red green and blue sliders. Step 2. Switch to the channel palette and copy one of the colour channels (doesn't matter which as the image is now B&W.) Step 3. Make the copied channel a selection.  Step 4. Apply this selection as a mask to any adjustment layer on your original image.  PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

Colour photos can be affected badly by age or by breaking down of chemicals in the paper. Sometimes the easiest and most inexpensive solution is to turn the discoloured photo into black and white. This method if used correctly and with some careful use of the channel mixer adjustment layer in Photoshop, will remove the discoloration and give an nice evenly toned black and white image. Like the example below. This Photo is from   PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

I'm always on the look out for new tips or new sources of information to help improve my photo restoration and photo retouching skills. www.retouchingacademy.com is a Photoshop teaching website that has lots of useful tips and lessons in how to use some of the powerful tools that Photoshop has to offer. PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

No sooner has the Easter holiday's finished and the phone is ringing again and its back to work. This time I have a simple remove people situation to show you. Below are the before and after from a customer who just wanted to show the wedding couple in this old discoloured photo. I also restored the colour and restored the contrast PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

I was approached last year by the Queen Nanasipauu of Tonga to restore some photos for the Department of Tongan  Culture. This was initially 1 batch of photos with some extreme examples of damage caused by mold, fading and also termite damage. Below is one of the very old images taken from outside the palace in Tonga. PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

Before and After: People like to see the transformation from old and damaged to new and restored. So with every order I always make sure customers get to see what they are paying for. Below is an example of the before and after restoration image that I send to customers. PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

I have just relocated to my new house and now PixelFIX Photo Restoration Services are now to be found at 1/21 Fortunes Road, Half Moon Bay Auckland. My contact numbers still remain the same so if you have any questions please call me on 09 8899533. PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

This is what Santa brought me this year, a wacom intuos pad. This will give my photoshop work for re-touching and photo restoration, a bit more control and I'm hoping it will save some time during some photo restorations.

This is what a bag full of photo restorations looks like. December is becoming my busiest month for photo restorations. There is still more on the way. I hope i can get all the restorations done by Christmas.

This photo was ripped up into 10 pieces before being restored by PixelFIX - Aucklands best photo restoration service.

As part of the New PixelFIX photo restoration web site I am using a new enquiry form for people to send through their photos for restoration. I am using the Jot Form service that can be found here  . There is a free service for small limited users like myself. It is working well for me at the moment, try it out you might like it. PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. Auckland's best photo restoration and photo repair service. Click here for 'fancy view'

Why not give a really personal gift this Christmas and restore and old photo for someone. Old photos bring back memories and often they are forgotten memories of happier times. Photo restoration of an old photo is always expensive and prices start from just $15. Photo restoration is a unique gift that will be sure to bring a smile to a loved one this Christmas. So upload your photo for restoration today at PixelFIX - Auckland's Best Photo Restoration Service. PixelFIX - Photo restoration and photos repaired, from $15. The restoration and manipulation specialists. Click here for 'fancy view'

Summer time has started with a bang in Auckland and it is hard to concentrate on photo restorations when the beach is calling. But here is a recent photo restoration where i repaired the missing part of the image with parts form another photo.

It's here at last the new website PixelFIX is now live. If there are some rough corners please let me know. It is always an evolving thing when a new website starts and this revamp is no exception. I hope it manages to show off more examples of photo restorations done at PixelFIX. There is a new upload service for sending us your photos for restoration. Please let me know your thoughts on the new site, your feedback is important. Enjoy.

Saturday and still got my head down working through a pile of photo restoration work. Repairing damaged wedding photos for a customer who has rescued a pile of prescious family photos from certain death.

I'm currently in the process of updating the PixelFIX website. Its about time it had a new coat of paint and hopefully we can attract a few more visitors. I have also moved over to weebly to complete this new makeover.