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My wife is the family genealogist. This has brought her many family photos for possible addition to the genealogy family tree.
Those photos that are of critical ancestors, Grandparents and GGparents and GGGparents. We have tried to improve them for future generations.

I have done many of them with readily available software for editing photos on your phone or computer.

But for those really key photos that have been neglected for years, there are websites that will do professional restorations for a fee, of course.

For this Owl-Bike and Grandfather photo, I just did a two-minute tweak to show how pictures like these could be restored for future generations. I lightened it up a little and added color to his face.

If you send me a DU email, I will point you to the photo restoration software I have used on my Android phone and tell you what to Google to find online photo restoration websites.

Most on-site restorers will quote you a price and allow you one or more additional tweaks for the contracted price. For example, we had a 58-year-old photo of my wife and me at a military ball on her college campus. I was wearing my USAF Class A uniform and asked them to improve the color of the faded USAF blue. The first revision had my wife's ball gown perfect. But my uniform color was way off-color. So, I sent them a picture from the USAF Blues website, and the revision tweak turned out perfectly.