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Archival Over-Restoration

I’ve restored a dozen family wedding scans and clients sometimes say the repair looks ‘too new’ or ‘over-photoshopped.…

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DBecome — “help me grow”I’ve restored a dozen family wedding scans and clients sometimes say the repair looks ‘too new’…+
I’ve restored a dozen family wedding scans and clients sometimes say the repair looks ‘too new’ or ‘over-photoshopped.’ Diagnose the recurring missteps — grain matching, tonal repair, or level of reconstruction — and prescribe one rule I must never break plus a simple test I can run before I hand the file back so the image still feels like an honest old photograph.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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Archival restores keep crossing the ‘too-new’ line

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Wedding / Event Photographer

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