Composite
A Composite combines or extracts elements from several sources to create a new image. For example, Uncle Oscar can be added to a photo of a family gathering he didn’t attend. Mom and Dad can be placed in front of the family castle. A wide-eyed Jim can replace a blinking Jim on the reunion photo.
This example substitutes one photo of a person for another. The man on the left is smoking in the group photo; his lapel and his right hand are badly placed, and his right side is cropped off. His second photo is much better.
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Composite Photo Illustration
This composite adjusts a number of elements for a printed photo-illustration.
Composite Scene
This composite adds a sky and edits to a street lamp and signage in an old photo
Composite Cameo
This composite takes elements from two snapshots to make one memorable picture.
Collage
A Photo Collage of several images can show important events in a life or a family history, a great memento for a birthday or reunion. Beautiful memorial collages can be shared with family and friends. Collages can be a collection of individual pictures or blended together in an artistic composition.
This example celebrates a memorable birthday, focusing on the guest of honor and surrounded by images from his life. Many of the old photos were restored, retouched, and colorized.
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Birthday Collage
This collage celebrates a birthday.
Memorial Collage
This collage shows a memorial collage.
Anniversary Collage
This collage celebrates a 20th wedding anniversary.
Colorize
Photo Colorizing enhances a black-&-white picture with an overall color tone or spot coloring for a unique hand-tinted or antique look. Note that there is no attempt to create a modern color photo; color is used to enhance the atmosphere of the image.
This example is a black-&-white photo with natural tinting of the subject and background.
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Colorized Photo of Children at Play
This example shows a photo that has even colorized like a modern color photo.
Colorized child and dog
This example shows a tinted photo of a child with her dog and dolly.
Colorized School Picture
This example shows a colorized treatment of a high school photo from the 1930s.
Colorized Variations
This example is a black-&-white photo treated with an overall sepiatone tint.
Colorized Office
This example uses an old-fashioned hand-colored effect.
Poster
Have a photo reproduced as a large-format Poster. Liven up a birthday party with posters of the guest-of-honor in younger days. Decorate a child’s room with posters of friends or pets.
Our standard poster size is 11 x 17 inches. The large poster is 13 x 19 inches. Custom size orders can be requested (up to 35 inches wide). Please note that photos can only be enlarged so much without loss of quality in the image. The size and sharpness of the original are the determining factors. We’d be happy to suggest a size based on your original.
Special Projects
Time for a special gathering or reunion of family, college friends, military buddies, or business associates? Let us create a memorable poster or keepsake for the event.
This oversized poster was framed and displayed on an easel at a reunion of WWII shipmates of the USS Loeser. A colorized photo of the ship, a silhouette of a sailor statue, and memorial lists were displayed.
Digital Scrapbook
Assemble your photos, captions, and stories into a PDF file. We can create a PDF to share and view using the free Adobe Reader app. The files are provided on a USB thumb drive or DVD disc.
Make a slide show of your photos. The web files can be viewed on your computer from the thumb drive or disc with a web browser. Or you can upload the files to a personal web site.
Please note: For any order that includes a minimum of 20 photos, a set of web files are automatically included with your archive.
We can create a website of images that can be viewed on your computer or uploaded to a personal web site. Click to view a sample site.
Here is an example of a fragile Civil War journal that was scanned and saved as a PDF. Click to view a PDF of several journal pages.