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PHOTO RETOUCHING, RESTORATION, AND MANIPULATION
Photo Retouching and Restoration
• Enhancing and restoring badly faded photograph to its original exposure.
• Cleaning and removing spots, creases or tears of a damaged photograph.
• Restoring a missing part of a damaged photograph.
• Removing red-eye, an unwanted mole or birthmark, wrinkles, tattoos or stray hairs.
Photo Manipulation
• Add or remove a person from a group shot.
• Now you can rub out your EX.
• You can use your imagination to create the photo that you want.
When Photos for the Future receives your photograph (no larger than 8 X 12), we will professionally scan your photo and return the original to you. We will assess the amount of the damage, and determine the approximate amount of time the job will take. Most jobs take about one or two hours. You will be sent an e-mail with a price quote before any work is performed. When the approved job is completed, you will receive an e-mail with a proof print. At this time you can decide on the size of the final print and how many you want. Unlike other web based businesses, at Photos for the Future you do not pay until the job is completed. For your safety as well as ours, we do not accept credit cards. We offer a flat rate of $45.00 U.S. dollars per hour to perform all work, plus the cost of the print. You can either pay by money order or personal check. Upon receiving your money order or when your personal check clears, your order will be shipped.
Three Levels Of Service
We have three levels of restoration. The two lower levels have a set fee. The fee for the highest level of restoration must be determined on a case by case basis.
NOTE:
Photos for the Future as the provider of the service, must have the final determination of the level of restoration required. We encourage you to talk to us about your project before we start any work.
Minor Restoration
Remove minor wrinkles, scratches, spots, stains, and tears in the photograph. Color and hue adjustments are also included. Image contrast and sharpness will also be adjusted as needed. $22.50 PER PHOTOGRAPH
Extensive Restoration
Extensive restoration involves all of the minor restoration areas as well as recreating missing sections of the photograph (when possible) and addressing larger, more complicated damage issues, such as large tears, extreme stains and spotting in the photograph.
$45.00 PER PHOTOGRAPH
Major Restoration
Major restoration involves the restoration of photographs that are extremely damaged due to any number of reasons. The operative phrase here is, extremely damaged. This can be due to tears, missing pieces, extreme spotting, etc. A rule of thumb is, that in any case in which the photograph is so badly damaged that viewing it for content and detail is difficult, major restoration is called for.
$45.00 per hour AND UP DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT.
Retouching And Digital Magic
Digital technology allows us to remove a number of problem areas from a photograph, such as facial blemishes, moles, scars, wrinkles, red eye from flash units, hair, tattoos, backgrounds and more.
Things can also be added to a photograph, such as people, sky, new backgrounds, major scene changes, etc.
Imagination is the key word here.
This is a bespoke service, and each individual case will be assessed and priced accordingly.
$45.00 AND UP IS A GOOD RULE OF THUMB)
Photo Conversion
We can convert color photographs to black and white or sepia images, or vice a versa.
$12.00 PER PHOTOGRAPH (without restoration)
CD-ROM Storage
We can burn images to a CD-ROM for you.
$20.00 PER CD-ROM
Duplicate Prints
4x6 Prints are $6.00, 5x7 $8.75, 8x10 $20.00, 8x12 $24.00, 11x14 $38.50, 24x36 $216.00
Right To Decline
Photos for the Future reserves the right to decline projects we feel we cannot complete to our satisfaction or yours.
WHAT WE CAN NOT DO
• Fix an extraordinarily damaged original photograph
• Change the angle or position of a person
• Change the angle or position of the lighting
• Recreate large missing parts of a person or object
• Refocus an out of focus photograph
• WHAT WE WILL NOT DO
We will will not retouch or copy any professionally taken and/or copyrighted photograph without written consent of the photographer or the copyright owner.
We will not undertake any work that might have pornographic and immoral implications.
We keep the right to refuse any order.
METHOD OF DELIVERY
Use the following chart to determine the best print quality you can get from photos using a variety of common resolutions. (Note that picture resolution is expressed using a figure such as 1,600 x 1,200, which indicates how many pixels wide by how many pixels tall the image is.) If you have a large image that you want to print at a smaller size than is recommended, shrink it using a Photo-editing application instead of letting the printer handle the job, or else output quality will suffer.
If your photo is between the following resolutions... |
...then this is its optional print size. (When a resolution is close to the cutoff point between two entries, you can choose either one.) |
900 x 600 or lower |
Wallet-sized, or unsuitable for printing |
1,000 x 600 to 1,500 x 900 |
3 x 5 inch print |
1,500 x 900 to 1,800 x 1,200 |
4 x 6 inch print |
1,800 x 1,200 to 2,100 x 1,500 |
5 x 7 inch print |
2,100 x 1,500 to 2,700 x 1,800 |
6 x 9 inch print |
2,700 x 1,800 to 3,000 x 2,400 |
8 x 10 inch print |
3,000 x 2,400 to 4,200 x 3,300 |
11 x 14 inch print |
4,200 x 3,300 to 6,000 x 4,800 |
16 x 20 inch print |
on an e-mail to: rick@photosforthefuture.com
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Photos for the Future is very concerned about the protection of online privacy for all our web site visitors. Although we track the total number of visitors to our sites in an aggregate form to allow us to update and improve our sites, personally identifiable information is not extracted in this process. Any cookie technology (where our servers deposit special codes on a visitor's computer) will only be used to track non-personal information such as type of browser, operating system, and domain names to improve our visitors' online experience.
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We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by notifying guests of the existence of a new privacy policy.
A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS: Photos for the Future adheres to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. Parents, you can help by spending time online with your children and monitoring your children's online use. Please help us protect your child’s privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without your permission.
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Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact.
309-786-8810
rick@photosforthefuture.com
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