About Magda

After immigrating to Canada, I went to work for a photo studio in Kelowna where I took photos, developed and retouched them. I had to learn everything about color photography. I knew the basics from school, but it was not enough. The retouching of color photos and negatives was different from what I knew. You use special dyes to do that. It was not that hard to learn  and then I started to restore old photos. Copied them, developed, retouched the negative, then printed and retouched the photos. It was a very long process but the results always looked good.      
After getting a computer and a digital camera I started to be intrigued with the digital imaging. I learned how to use Adobe Photoshop and tried to fix some of the damaged photographs. The results were great and without the long, developing process. I learned that you can do so much more than just retouch scratches. I can change backgrounds, take people out of photos or scan very faded images and make them visible again, and much more.
And with my background in the old photography process, I still know how to make my photos look like they were developed in the darkroom or hand colored. Making them look as they looked years back, when they were new. And to see the happy customers is the best reward.