Save The Naugas! » Retouching http://savethenaugas.com/blog Don't Hide, Come Stay at the Naugas Resort! Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:55:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Photo Restoration in Foreign Languages http://savethenaugas.com/blog/2010/05/27/19-photo-restoration/ http://savethenaugas.com/blog/2010/05/27/19-photo-restoration/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 21:14:22 +0000 admin http://savethenaugas.com/blog/?p=192 The guy who runs a photo retouching and photo restoration company came for another stay. We like it when visitors come back…it means we didn’t scare them off the first time, so we will get another chance!

I asked him what was up in the photo restoration business. He said that many baby boomers are discovering drawers full of old, damaged photographs from their childhoods (or earlier). He said this brings a constant stream of new, and returning, customers.

He said that his company has recently created some versions of their website in foreign languages. For example:
Danish
German
Greek
Spanish
Hebrew
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Afrikaans
Czech
French
Italian
He figures that there must be people in all those nations who have lots of old, scratched, faded photos that need restoration.

I asked him what he will do when somebody actually sends in an order written in Romanian or Greek. He scratched his head and walked away.

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He gave a page of misspelled words about photo retouching as an example. Some of them look unbelievable, but he said that they are all likely errors.

He laughed with us when he had to come by the desk to ask his room number…he had forgotten it. He may be an expert at letters, but numbers just aren’t his thing.

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