BurlyMingo Heritage

Start with restoration. Add more when the project calls for it.

Base Restoration is available now. Enhanced cleanup can be scoped separately, and new services will appear only when they are ready for reliable production.

Available for validated positive-image workflows

Base Restoration

Source-preserving, non-generative wholesale development and restoration of accepted RAW captures of positive slides and supported positive film.

We restore what remains. We do not invent what is missing. Base Restoration creates a new derivative, never overwrites the submitted source, and does not synthesize faces, objects, textures, or replacement detail.

  • Supported RAW development on a working derivative
  • Submitted source copy remains unmodified
  • Color-cast and white-balance restoration
  • Exposure, tonal, contrast, and dynamic-range improvement
  • Color restoration and guarded collection consistency
  • Supported orientation and standard output paths
  • Basic production quality control
  • Reprocessing when BurlyMingo Heritage demonstrably failed

Separately scoped

Enhanced Dust & Debris Cleanup

Additional cleanup is available for projects that need treatment beyond Base Restoration. It is selected intentionally and estimated from a representative sample.

More intensive cleanup

This service targets visible captured dust and debris. Because stronger pixel-level cleanup can also affect real image detail, scope and price depend on severity, image count, and the acceptable detail tradeoff. Cleaning loose debris before capture remains the preferred path.

Result statuses

Difficult work needs an honest outcome.

Base Restoration complete
Best result limited by source
Capture quality limits result
Recapture recommended
Manual restoration recommended
Unsupported or unusable capture
Optional AI enhancement available

Not unlimited base work

  • Enhanced dust or debris cleanup
  • Extensive manual repair
  • Missing-area reconstruction
  • Manual object removal
  • Severe scratch, mold, tear, or emulsion repair
  • Face reconstruction
  • Historical research or manual identity verification
  • Unlimited subjective revisions
  • Repairing focus or detail absent from the capture
  • Recovering information clipped out of the submitted file

In development—not available for purchase

Future services remain separate and clearly labeled.

In development

Optional AI Enhancement

May synthesize or reinterpret plausible detail. This will be opt-in, separate from Base Restoration, and will preserve the source and Base Restoration as distinct deliverables.

In development

Image-level

2× or 4× upscaling, premium noise/grain treatment, manual hero restoration, damage repair, alternate crops, print preparation, additional exports

In development

Collection-level

Duplicate review, best-image selection, organization, contact sheets, indexes, branded galleries, albums, extended storage

In development

Metadata

Slide-mount transcription, dates and locations, structured entry, IPTC/XMP embedding, captions, OCR-assisted packages

In development

Family history

Face clustering, probable matches, review sheets, confirmed-name propagation, relationship associations, interview-derived annotation

In validation

Black-and-white negatives

Requires film-base normalization and controlled luminance inversion before positive-image restoration.

In validation

Color negatives

Requires film-base and orange-mask handling, channel-aware inversion, negative-specific normalization, and quality gates—not a simple RGB inversion.

In-development services are not available for purchase. New products and add-ons are not automatically referral-eligible.

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