Photograph Restoration & Preservation

Photo restoration services charge $30-$300 per photo for digital restoration plus $50-$150 for physical conservation.

Restoring 50-200 photos monthly generates $80,000-$400,000 annually with 70-85% margins.

In 2025, families increasingly digitize and restore old photographs preserving family history.

Services include digital photo restoration (damage, fading), photo scanning and digitization, print restoration and conservation, colorization of black & white photos, photo album preservation, archival storage materials, and family history documentation.

Successful photo restoration businesses master photo editing software (Photoshop), understand photo chemistry and aging, work with various photo formats (daguerreotypes, tintypes, prints), provide archival quality work, and serve both families and institutions.

Can market to genealogists, families, historical societies, museums, and estate sale companies.

Many combine digital restoration (Photoshop work) with physical conservation.

Marketing through genealogy societies, family history conferences, Facebook groups, and local historical societies.