Digital Family Album is a premier provider of restoration services for photographs, documents, handwritten books and historic paper items. DFA uses both digital and traditional means to copy damaged, rare and fragile items. With over 10 years experience using the most advanced computer technology, we can restore, enhance and correct images and documents.

Restored images can be output to any size black and white or color film from 35mm to 8X10 and enlarged on a variety of substrates including archival museum quality fiber-based photographic paper. In addition, we offer a full range of digital output processes from proof quality prints to outdoor mural size display images. Digital Family Album also provides digital archiving of images, books, and documents on cross platform CD-ROM's.

We are located in rural Pierce County in Western Wisconsin, on the banks of the Mississippi River overlooking Red Wing Minnesota, We work directly with customers from Red Wing, Ellsworth, Hudson, River Falls, Stockholm, Pepin and the Minneapolis - St. Paul Twin Cities area in our studio.

Husom & Rose Photographics site chosen at the Site of the Week by The Bubbler
The Bubbler recently chose us as the site of the week for our restoration work. www.thebubbler.com

Project: When Digital Family Album received this print it looked like a box of puzzle pieces. The turn of the century hand colored photograph had fallen on the floor in a glass frame. Along with breaking the glass, the fall ripped apart the image, and left shads of glass in the picture's delicate emulsion.

The image was carefully reassembled and chips of broken glass were delicately removed. Digital restoration included removing all the cracks and rips in the image. The color was also enhanced to it's original richness and contrast. A new large format negative was produced and enlarged to the exact dimensions of the original.

Project: This photograph was so faded that the two people in the image were barely recognizable. The clients grandfather was a well known contractor and was posing with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright next to a recently finished home.

The contrast was returned to normal and the dirt and scratches were removed from the image. In the restored photograph it is obvious that Wright's eyes were closed as he squinted into the sun. Yet, rather than distracting from the photograph, it gives the image a certain charm.

Project: In the early 1850's the clients great grandfather risked his life to write a book - the book was a tutorial on everyday mathematics. At the time teaching Irish Catholics was banned by the British government. The 170 page book had managed to survive, but after nearly a century and a half it was showing signs of wear. It was obviously time to put the book away for safe keeping.

Digital Family Album carefully scanned the book, page by page and created a set of three CD-ROM's of the 170 page book. As an electronic document the book can now be studied safely on screen, and can also be printed out with conventional laser printers. Although the book could have been fully restored, our goal was to make sure that the document's "patina" not be destroyed.

Project: This beautiful turn of the century 16X20 inch hand-colored photographic portrait had faded, discolored and become water stained. Other restoration services and photo labs turned down the project because of the excessive damage and the large size of the image.

Unlike other companies that depend on desktop scanners, for this job DFA turned to a high resolution digital camera capable of producing images over 140 megabytes in size. Once the image was restored a new negative was made, an archival black and white print was created to the exact size of the original and the new image was expertly hand-colored using traditional oil paints that matched the original photograph.

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