Your old snaps may be in need of photo repair. Ask yourself these questions. Have they been stuck at the bottom of a drawer? Or in a self cling photo album? or worse still, stuck with glue or Sellotape(TM) onto the pages...
Note: The following information is meant to be genuinely useful and helpful for those with degrading photos.
If this is the case your photos may already be damaged, as the glues in these old photo albums age, they crystallize and discolour your photos, sticking to them causing bumps and ridges which in turn causes wear and tear on the surface emulsion.
Do not try to remove your photographs from the album as this could cause them to be un-repairable. You could tear, rip or bend them trying to un-stick them from the pages. If they are stained by the glue, particularly from the self cling kind of album they may also have a pattern on them. The adhesive from the clear page that l... Read more