About PhotoFixer

Most photo-fixing guides online are either too vague to act on, written by someone who clearly hasn't opened Lightroom recently, or exist to push you toward whichever tool paid for placement. The actual question — how do I fix this specific problem with this specific photo — rarely gets a straight answer.

This site exists to fix that.

Every guide here is written from real use. Real scans, real damaged prints, real shots that came out wrong. Not from feature lists, not from press releases.

About Chris Tanner

I'm a freelance photographer based in Portland, Oregon. I've been shooting commercially since 2009 — events, portraits, local editorial work — and I've spent more hours than I'd like to admit fixing photos that didn't come out right the first time.

The restoration work started as a side project around 2020. A client brought me a box of deteriorated family prints and asked if anything could be saved. Most of it could. That job turned into a steady stream of similar requests, and I've since restored over 300 individual photographs for private clients — faded prints, cracked emulsion, water damage, film negatives that hadn't seen light in forty years.

I run Lightroom Classic and Photoshop daily. I've tested most of the AI tools in this space seriously enough to have real opinions about when they help and when they don't. The guides on this site reflect that — specific settings, honest results, and a clear statement when something isn't worth your time.