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Before It Fades
Eight pages on why old photographs die and what to do about it this weekend. It is the advice we give people who write to us before they have spent a penny: get the box out of the attic, stop taping the torn ones, and copy the ten that matter first.
No email, no account, no newsletter. Download it, print it, pass it on.
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What is inside
- 1What actually destroys a photographLight, heat, damp, tape, PVC sleeves, rubber bands, fingers.
- 2Five things never to do to an old printStarting with the one that causes the most irreversible damage.
- 3How to store what you haveWithout buying anything archival.
- 4Photographing a print with a phoneFlat, daylight, from above, flash off — and why the border matters.
- 5What a good copy looks likeOne print, before and after a single restoration pass.
- 6Scanning, if you have a scannerWhy 300 to 600 dpi, and why negatives are the valuable box.
- 7What restoration can and cannot doIncluding the part most services will not say out loud.
- 8The whole guide, on one pageA checklist you can print and put in the box.
When you are ready to repair one
NNC Restore repairs cracks, tears, stains and fading and returns colour to a black-and-white print, without changing the face. One photo is $5, the result comes back in about two minutes, and nothing you upload is ever used to train a model.