Photo Restoration

The Tutorials

You will likely find that the majority of your time will be spent cleaning up spots and lines and creases so that is where we will start ...

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

Scratch Repair

"How the heck did that image get such a huge scratch" you ask.

It doesn't really matter how it happened because there it is staring at you with all its glory. Funny - when you see an image with a big scratch that is where your eyes go so that ugly scratch it needs to be repaired.

The correct question is "how the heck do I repair it"?

With this image massive amounts of careful cloning will get the job done quickly and efficiently.

Click the thumbnail to follow along ...

Curves and Channel Mixer
(Photoshop Only)

It's not unusual to find and old photo that looks very much like the thumbnail - off color, with poor contrast and a host of other problems.

At the very least fixing up the contrast makes it much easier to deal with the other issues such as stains and scratches and dust spots and on and on ...

It's not absolutely necessary to eliminate the sepia color of the image but I find it easier to work on the grayscale image than on the sepia toned image.

Click the thumbnail to learn how to deal with the color cast and the contrast issues.

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Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Scratch Repair

I was totally amazed by Paint Shop Pro's ability to remove a nasty scratch in the same imageused for the Photoshop scratch repair.

With Paint Shop the scratch was completely eliminated in abut 5 minutes - with Photoshop it took over an hour or painstaking cloning.

Paint Shop has three tools to eliminate most problems on a damaged image - the Clone Tool, the Object Remover and the Scratch Remover. They are fabulous!

Click the thumbnail to find out how to use these great tools!

Curves and Channel Mixer

This tutorial will use the Channel Mixer and Curves in Paint Shop Pro to improve contrast andeliminate an annoying color cast.

There may be other problems with the image and making these initial improvements will make it much, much easier to fix the rest of those other issues..

Click the thumbnail to learn how to improve contrast and eliminate color cast.

Photoshop's Art History Brush

Photoshop has this really cool brush called the Art History Brush.

With this brush you can turn any photograph into a really nice looking painting.

The actual painting is easy and quick, however the set up may take a bit more time.

Click the thumbnail to learn how to use the Art History Brush.