All those old photos carrying your family and extended family's memories are now staring at you, begging for help. You want those old and precious, but damaged photos to be back to how they were in their heydays, or even better. You are right, photo restoration services are your best bet to making those old mugged pictured livelier than they ever were, by editing them using special programs.

Millions of people today use photo restoration to get back their old memories in perfect shape. In fact it has become a very profitable business for many services. Some of the restoration services seem to be so ridiculously cheap, that you want to edit perfectly fine photos, just for the heck of it. However, you should know by now that cheap services need not really be good enough for you.

Before giving any vendor your valued photos to do the editing job consider the following things carefully and beware of cheap vendors trying to rip your money off. First of all, avoid all those services that tend to use big jargons in their pitch. Things like tone correction and red eye are nothing more than simple corrections, which on first hearing seem to be really complicated tasks.

Here is a piece of information for you. Most of these "premium features" should be nothing more than free. In fact, these should be part of the photo restoration services that these people offer. The reason I say this is because things such as correcting the tone can be done with a single mouse click using Photoshop or really any image editing software that they may be using.

If they genuinely offer such premium features, they should be done by professional who are experts at editing software. Your cheap local photo restoration service might just train a person or two to use Photoshop or any other photo editing software and charge you money unfairly. If you want the best photo correction services, make sure that the people doing it are experienced in their job even if they cost more.

You might find a photo restoration service that offers to scan your old photos for you and then edit them. for all you know, those guys use the same scanner that you use at home and then charge you extra for it. It is always better to scan the photos yourself and then mail it to them and save some money that you don't need to part with anyways.

In order to earn some extra money, many photo restoration services may offer a print out of the restored photos for free. The question to ask is why you need a print out of those photos if you are going to share it online. This is nothing more than a marketing gimmick to attract you to their photo services.

Even if you do need a print out a photo, you better do it using a high quality photo paper, unlike the cheap paper used by your vendor. These are some of the things that you should be aware of, to get the best deal from your vendor. Before zeroing on a particular service, research good photo restoration companies online to get a good idea of the standard rates and features.