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Sometimes a photo can be the last physical link between two people, but with time it can be lost forever due to spillages, tears, and other threats. This is where restoration experts come into play, and few are as good as the Ukrainian Tetyana Dyachenko.
Using her exceptional Photoshop skills, Dyachenko recovers extremely fine details in photographs. Neither creases, spilled liquids, nor cuts can stop her from bringing back the past. Sometimes Dyachenko even recreates missing sections, and you can't even tell that she had to make them from scratch. Here are some before-and-after examples of her remarkable work.
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Greg Hoggarth 9 years ago
I think the original might have had a bit of a rounder face than this "after" shows.
Daryl Talbot 8 years ago
i think it's the same, the smudges on the original distort the appearance.
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Pigeons 9 years ago
This isn't a restoration. It is a reimagining. Her face, shoulder, and even her necklace are different.
Amy Carter 9 years ago
Wow! Imagine this being the only picture of the grandmother you never got to meet. Almost brings tears to my eyes as there are no pics of my grandmother who died when my mother was only 13. I'll never know what she looked like.
Baldvin Baldvinsson 5 years ago
Restorian or reimage. I think this is waht people do when they had to get photo like new. Ofcourse the neckless is diiferent Of course the photo will look different, but when you make a new layer of the old one and put it over the new one you can see the face is the same. Because someone thinks it is different maybe it could around 1mm or so. The hair looks different too. But anyway you can not say this is a bad work. I like this one event thoug the neckless is not the same, who cares.
Lily Mae Kitty 8 years ago
they made her look much prettier....but less like she looked. it's odd to photoshop the past
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Lilya 8 years ago
You mean Greta? I'm sure you could do better not being so ignorant Iain Wicks.
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Samantha Beckett 8 years ago
I have enough editing skill to deal with the cracks, but she practically recreated the face out of nothing. Impressive.
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Alex K 8 years ago
the jawline is wrong. he obviously repainted this and made the jaw bigger. if you see to the original photo there is a shadow, which is the underside of the jaw.
Jan Rees 8 years ago
The artist is a woman. You would know that if you read anything about this photo series. Stop being so critical and sexist.
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Lilya 8 years ago
No, it's because they zoomed out everything, so it's actually pretty proportional, so shut up please.
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Lilya 8 years ago
I wouldn't talk if I were you, because 1) she looks beautiful, more than a certain someone 2) you're being critical of a person's actual features, do you realize? 3) this is coming from a person who used WAY too many filters in her *cough cough* profile picture. Thanks for being a jerk. :(
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Jermaine Ho 8 years ago
this isn't right, when the flashlight is on, the background should be darker
Jer Espitia 9 years ago
Omg this is horrible the jersey name is cut out! The background was taken out of google images and not represented from the original!!
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Jan Morris 3 years ago
Remarkable. People making negative comments on this lady's great skills are negative themselves. Tetyana Dyachenko is a genius and I doubt any of her detractors could run a bath, let alone restore back to life these precious likenesses that mean so much to their owners. Good for her. She's providing a wonderful service.
Thorsten M. Weisner 8 years ago
Same as the other pic. You done tooo much and know it looks "painted" if you overlay with the original it becomes more a photo the a painting.
Aimi Zuki 9 years ago
They changed the colour of the earrings, pouted her lip line and changed her hair. Bad restoration job, more like creatative licence.
Lilya 8 years ago
1) the color of the earrings are the same 2) did not change her hair 3) hair is the same, I keep having to tell you dumb people, it's because the first photos ARE BLURRY WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS POST.
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Iliyana Kostova 9 years ago
added more eyelashes and eyeliner than original, too much definition in brows. nose was more straight and less bent inward on original and the right eye is too far on the right.
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Miyuki Nohara 9 years ago
first boy is looking to the camera , second boy is not, one of the eyes is disproportionate
Iliyana Kostova 9 years ago
damn thats terrible. especially how the eye on the left is too high up. it's obvious that it should be the same as the other eye. cringe
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Iliyana Kostova 9 years ago
why airbrush skin imperfections? this robot/cgi look isnt really nice. they could have added some skin texture to make it look realistic after. also removing stray hairs on forehead etc sigh
Jan Rees 8 years ago
I agree. The only problem I have with this photo series is that the artist seems to have tried to make all the subjects look more attractive - in her view of what's attractive. I think it would be better if she kept their natural features and imperfections.
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Thorsten M. Weisner 8 years ago
It looks better if you overlay the old one to get the skin textures back. Unbenannt-...2a2f44.jpg 
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Sam Hood 9 years ago
Lighting doesn't match as well, the ground is in shade in the original, along with the top half of his body
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The rent is a completely different shapes.. Ffs ppl. The big thing in the background you can see, in the original, get that right at least!
Lilya 8 years ago
It's. Because. The. White splotches. We're. COVERING IT. Get your s**t right.
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Emre 9 years ago
WTF...sitting position? hands? Recovering is ok but manipulating the pose is not nice
astrid_smith 8 years ago
his hands are in a different position, and the background isn't even close
Collin Rogers 6 years ago
This one is not well done and taken too far changing hands and background.
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iblowsheep 9 years ago
So many comments by ignorant people that have no idea what is involved in doing this kind of work. Let's see their better attempts.
Sreejith 9 years ago
That is a wonderful and useful art. Redrawing the missing parts is appreciated :-)
Jane The Tiger 9 years ago
These are amazing, but some of them seem not quite real, almost ghostly
Aimi Zuki 9 years ago
This is like a huge game of spot the difference. These aren't true restorations, they're reconstructions/reconstituted composite images from the original. Many of the original image features have been altered dramatically for artistic licence/interpretation. Huzzah for the power of software that does it for us.
Jean Kincaid 7 years ago
These restorations are wonderful. I had some very old photos restored through another site several years ago and they are no longer doing it so I am very pleased to have found this site. It takes a true artist to recreate these pictures that are nearly destroyed.
iblowsheep 9 years ago
So many comments by ignorant people that have no idea what is involved in doing this kind of work. Let's see their better attempts.
Sreejith 9 years ago
That is a wonderful and useful art. Redrawing the missing parts is appreciated :-)
Jane The Tiger 9 years ago
These are amazing, but some of them seem not quite real, almost ghostly
Aimi Zuki 9 years ago
This is like a huge game of spot the difference. These aren't true restorations, they're reconstructions/reconstituted composite images from the original. Many of the original image features have been altered dramatically for artistic licence/interpretation. Huzzah for the power of software that does it for us.
Jean Kincaid 7 years ago
These restorations are wonderful. I had some very old photos restored through another site several years ago and they are no longer doing it so I am very pleased to have found this site. It takes a true artist to recreate these pictures that are nearly destroyed.
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