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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 8 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 8 years ago
This isn't a restoration. It is a reimagining. Her face, shoulder, and even her necklace are different.
Amy Carter 8 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
Ezgi Pamir 8 years ago
this is not restoration..even shape of her face , hair , nose chanced..Look at the necklace.. :/
John Ashley 8 years ago
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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Jermaine Ho 8 years ago
this isn't right, when the flashlight is on, the background should be darker
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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.
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Miyuki Nohara 8 years ago
first boy is looking to the camera , second boy is not, one of the eyes is disproportionate
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Iliyana Kostova 8 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
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iblowsheep 8 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 8 years ago
That is a wonderful and useful art. Redrawing the missing parts is appreciated :-)
Jane The Tiger 8 years ago
These are amazing, but some of them seem not quite real, almost ghostly
Aimi Zuki 8 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.
Kim Lee 8 years ago
So everyone took this post as a good time to complain and criticize, knowing damn well they couldn't do better? Okay -_-
Jan Rees 8 years ago
I know that I couldn't do better. I have a beautiful photo of my 95 year old grandmother from her youth which is slightly damaged that I would I love to have restored, but the one problem I have with the restored photos is that the artist has changed a lot of the features and removed the subjects' imperfections. It detracts from the character of the original photos and makes them all look more Caucasian. My grandmother is a blonde, blue eyed beauty but I would still want to keep the imperfections that make her unique and beautiful.
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Marie Garmon 8 years ago
I love how everyone is judging the quality of this work as if they could do any better. Obviously, if the photos are damaged,SOME creative license is required in order to get a complete picture.
AnnieLaurie Burke 8 years ago
Her talent must bring such joy to relatives that might have despaired of recovering their images.
Susan Forbes 8 years ago
Amazingly well done. It can't be easy to reconstruct (or construct) an image out of such fragments
iblowsheep 8 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 8 years ago
That is a wonderful and useful art. Redrawing the missing parts is appreciated :-)
Jane The Tiger 8 years ago
These are amazing, but some of them seem not quite real, almost ghostly
Aimi Zuki 8 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.
Kim Lee 8 years ago
So everyone took this post as a good time to complain and criticize, knowing damn well they couldn't do better? Okay -_-
Jan Rees 8 years ago
I know that I couldn't do better. I have a beautiful photo of my 95 year old grandmother from her youth which is slightly damaged that I would I love to have restored, but the one problem I have with the restored photos is that the artist has changed a lot of the features and removed the subjects' imperfections. It detracts from the character of the original photos and makes them all look more Caucasian. My grandmother is a blonde, blue eyed beauty but I would still want to keep the imperfections that make her unique and beautiful.
Load More Replies... Marie Garmon 8 years ago
I love how everyone is judging the quality of this work as if they could do any better. Obviously, if the photos are damaged,SOME creative license is required in order to get a complete picture.
AnnieLaurie Burke 8 years ago
Her talent must bring such joy to relatives that might have despaired of recovering their images.
Susan Forbes 8 years ago
Amazingly well done. It can't be easy to reconstruct (or construct) an image out of such fragments
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