Things You Might Like to Know (aka FAQ)

When I sleep at night, the process takes mere seconds.  Only in my dreams.

The reality is that it depends on the source materials: how much damage the original poster suffered.  Things like blur, tears, scratches, dust, spills, color bleeds and fades,  sun bleaching, or holes, and more.

The least amount of time it takes is about 18 hours on posters that haven't suffered much damage.  I have restored posters that required a lot of detailed work, and took 4-5 days, and a few have taken even longer.  Several have taken as much as a week.  There is a great range in between with the average running roughly 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 days.

Please take a look at some of our Before and Afters here.

No.

AI technology is not yet capable and will not be in my lifetime...and probably yours.

All our posters are restored by hand using state-of-the-art digital tools and a variety of techniques that we have developed ourselves. 

If I cannot find or draw or find something suitable as a replacement, I will use some AI to make up the difference.  I would say that AI represents less than 1% of what I do, and only when there is no other alternative.

Every scratch, every piece of dust, every color fade or bleed, every tear or hole, every detail sharpened is done by hand.  If a part needs to be replaced, I source a suitable replacement from similar images or posters from the same film. Sometimes I draw, but I am not that good.

When necessary, I might use AI to replace certain body parts.  Ears, noses, mouths, hands, and hair are examples.  Whole faces rarely as AI is not yet robust enough to draw a suitable face for Clark Gable or Katharine Hepburn.

For what I do, restoration means working from a scanned image and painstakingly working to make it more pleasing to the eye.  I work by hand using digital tools and processes to make colors pop, make faces sharp, bring out background detail, and repair damaged areas.

A reproduction would be taking a scanned image and, regardless of condition, making copies.  I rarely take this approach.

A recreation is when the image is so bad that it cannot be used, so I  replace every element to create something entirely new that looks as exact as possible to the original.

I do.

Occasionally.

I consider my posters to be my own art pieces.  As copyrights have expired on most of them, I feel free to make changes when they will improve a poster. 

When there is no poster of a quality that is satisfactory, my choices are to recreate it, or create something entirely new, never before seen.  I call these reimaginings or restylings

Several times I have pulled parts from existing works to create something never before seen, supplementing it with my own artistic creations.

Sometimes I will take a foreign language poster and convert it to English. Many time American posters are simply thrown together and look like crap, even from the major studios.  But, the French, Belgian, Spanish, Italian language posters are pieces of art.  So are posters from Australia and New Zealand.  So, I use them as a base.

Most of my posters are offered in several sizes, to accommodate your wall space.  Most are available in 24" on the long edge,or 36" 

Many are also available in the original poster size.  For a One-Sheet poster that would be 41" long by 26 or 27" wide.  Half-Sheet posters are 28" wide by 22" high.  Lobby Cards measure 11" by 14" and 14" by 17." 

Other original sizes will come online over time.

We have a partnership with an independent specialty Fine Art printer who takes as much time and care printing as I do restoring.  She uses only the best quality paper and ink.  The paper is acid-free, and the inks are of archival quality.  This means your poster will last a lifetime and stay vibrant, clear, and museum-quality.

If you need fine art printing for your projects, Dina's Art Printing is your printer.  Click to contact her.  

Our poster restorations are not just wall art but are Fine Art collectibles. 

Each poster restoration has a limited run of no more than 350 copies. At the end of the run, the poster will be retired, and no more prints will be made. 

They are individually numbered to ensure their value as a collectible.  And each print also comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, to demonstrate to the collectibles community that your poster is the real deal.  

Make sure you hang on to the Certificate, replacements cannot be issued.