Sex, Drugs, Violence, and PhotoFlux Policy

Someone will look at every image that you shot. In most cases, you can point your camera at almost anything and we will still develop and scan your film. However, there are limits to what we can scan, print, restore, or return as finished digital images.

This policy exists to protect our lab, our customers, and anyone who may appear in the photos.

Adult nudity

We may develop and scan film that contains legal adult nudity, but we will not print nude images without written consent from the person shown nude in the image.

The person in the photo must contact us directly, provide photo identification, and confirm in writing that they consent to the image being printed.

This applies to prints only. Digital scanning may still be limited depending on the image content and whether the image can be legally and safely handled.

Children and nudity

Images showing nude children will not be printed and may not be scanned.

This includes “baby in the bath,” pool, beach, diaper-changing, or similar images where a child is nude or partially nude. Even if the image was clearly intended as an innocent family photo, we cannot print or restore these images.

Images involving children that appear sexual, exploitative, abusive, or otherwise unsafe may be reported to the appropriate authorities.

Drug use

We will not print images showing illegal drug use.

Images of adults drinking alcohol or smoking legal substances are generally excluded from this restriction, as long as the image does not show illegal activity or unsafe content that violates our policy.

Violence, abuse, or intentional harm

Images showing intentional violence, abuse, or people being deliberately harmed will not be printed and may not be scanned.

Accidental injuries, newsworthy events, sports injuries, car accidents, or “someone got hurt doing something foolish” type images are generally handled differently, as long as the content does not appear abusive, exploitative, staged for harm, or criminal.

PhotoFlux has stricter limits

Our PhotoFlux restoration policy is much stricter than our basic developing and scanning policy.

PhotoFlux may refuse to generate corrected or restored images if the content is flagged by the image-processing system. This can include images that are legal, non-explicit, or ordinary family photos, but still trigger safety restrictions.

For PhotoFlux work involving children, the child must be fully clothed. Underwear, some bathing suits, shirtless boys, low-cut clothing, visible bras, or anything the system interprets as even slightly sexual may prevent PhotoFlux from being used.

In these cases, we may still be able to make basic color or exposure improvements manually, but we may not be able to provide a full PhotoFlux-restored image.

Final decision

Andrew’s Analog Service Center reserves the right to refuse scanning, printing, restoration, or delivery of any image that appears illegal, exploitative, abusive, unsafe, or outside what we are comfortable handling as a small home-based lab.

When in doubt, we will choose caution.