PHOTO COLORING, OIL TINTING and ANTIQUATION

Tinting a black and white photo in sepia or brown tones can give the photograph a vintage effect that will compliment its historical time period. When we restore your photo we try to retain its authenticity by matching the original tones while preserving heirloom-like vintage appeal.

Quite often Preserve Your Past™ is asked to add a vintage look to a contemporary photograph. Photo Antiquation is the process turning modern photographs into antique looking images via methods of digital distress. The process of antiquation includes the addition of tinting, fading and vignette, creation of creases, scratch marks, dust marks and rough edges and the use of specialty papers of a vintage style on our archival printers.

Such photographs can be easily mistaken for true antiques and make wonderful special occasion gifts. They can also serve as display copies whenever the originals have to be protected due to their value or fragility.