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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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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't a restoration. It is a reimagining. Her face, shoulder, and even her necklace are different.

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Amy Carter
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they made her look much prettier....but less like she looked. it's odd to photoshop the past

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Ezgi Pamir
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is not restoration..even shape of her face , hair , nose chanced..Look at the necklace.. :/

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John Ashley
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being familiar with PhotoShop and what it takes for photo restorations from even relatively undamaged photos, there is a great deal of "artistic license" going on with several of the images here. That said, it is possible that Dyachenko had access to other photo reference for filling in obscured/missing features in these particular photos.

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hairline is too high she looks a little bit bald, nose too too big i kind see 2 different women

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this isn't right, when the flashlight is on, the background should be darker

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Miyuki Nohara
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

first boy is looking to the camera , second boy is not, one of the eyes is disproportionate

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

different shoes on the touchup of the middle child and hands are different. The faces though. Cryptic.

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Iliyana Kostova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Jermaine Ho
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the original one looks good, i love those shades in the background

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF...sitting position? hands? Recovering is ok but manipulating the pose is not nice

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