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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.
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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 -_-
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 -_-
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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