Payment protectionDetails
- Revisions within the package are free.
- If you do not respond within 3 days of delivery, the work is accepted automatically.
The money is reserved when you pay and released only once you accept the work.
Example result
Restored family photo from the 1950s
Before
After
File: PNG, about 1.5 megapixels. Small details can differ slightly from the original.
Client: a family preparing a gift for their grandparents' anniversary. Task: remove scratches, stains and the crease, bring back sharpness and add natural colour, keeping the faces as they are.
The client and all details are made up.
About this service
For a family tree, a genealogy profile or a printed chart of ancestors, we restore the faces that go next to the names: cabinet cards, passport-style portraits from old albums, group photos where great-aunts stand in a row. Tree charts and profile cards show photos small, so we focus on a clean, clear face and even tones, and lost parts are recreated to fit rather than restored from evidence. Each picture is made from one of your photos as a PNG of about 1.5 megapixels, good for online trees and printed charts but not for large prints.
What is included
- What you getYou get 1, 3 or 5 restored ancestor pictures as PNG files of about 1.5 megapixels, one per photo in your package, ready to upload to your tree or crop for a chart.
- Faces firstClear, clean faces that read well as small thumbnails
- Old formatsCabinet cards, card mounts and small album portraits
- Group photosThe whole photo restored, so you can crop each relative
- Even lookSimilar tones for the whole line of ancestors
- Upload readyPNG files for genealogy sites and printed charts
How it works
- 1Your ancestorsYou upload the photos and tell us who is who
- 2RestorationWe clean the damage and sharpen the faces
- 3DeliveryYou get the PNG files and ask for changes within your package
What we need from you
Up to 5 photos as PNG, JPEG or WebP. Tell us who is who if there are several people, what to fix, whether to colourize, and where the photos will go (Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch or a printed chart).
We will ask you:
- Who is in the photos?
- Where will the photos be used?
- What should we fix?
- Keep the original tones or colourize?
Compare packages
| Packages | Basic1 ancestor photo$7 | Standard3 ancestor photos$15 | Premium5 ancestor photos$25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadline | 1 day | 1 day | 2 days |
| Revisions | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Photos | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Format | PNG | PNG | PNG |
| Colourizing | on request | on request | on request |
| Order Basic | Order Standard | Order Premium |
Payment protection
You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.
- Fixed priceThe package price does not change after you pay.
- The money is reservedWhen you pay, the amount is only reserved. It is released to the service once you accept the work.
- Checked before deliveryEvery result goes through a quality check before it reaches you, and you see it on the order page before accepting it.
- Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
- Acceptance after 3 daysIf within 3 days of delivery you neither accept the work nor ask for changes, it is accepted automatically. If you write in the order chat after delivery, the order waits; once we answer, we may start the 3 days again and will say so in the chat.
- Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
Questions and answers
Can you tell who the people are or date the photo?
No, we restore the picture only. Identifying people and dating photos is your research; keep the original scans as your record, because restored pictures contain recreated parts.
Can I get one person out of a group photo?
We restore the whole photo, then you crop each relative in your tree site or editor. A crop of one face from a big group will be small, so a single portrait, if you have one, gives a sharper result.
Will the faces stay true to the original?
They stay recognizable, but the picture is redrawn, so small features, a name written on the mount or an inscription can differ slightly. That is fine for a tree, but not for proving who someone was.
Can you restore old certificates or church records?
No. We never change documents, certificates or records, and we don't make ID photos. We also add no nudity and never put another real face into the photo; send photos you have the right to use.