Restoring an Old Photo

While browsing through a box of photos handed bottomward to you
from a relative, you appear beyond a flat account of your great
grandfather and his family. The account is in amber tone, the edges
are decrepit and there are abysmal scratches beyond the picture. To
make affairs worse, addition bankrupt the account to fit into a small
box bearing a bulge beyond the centermost of the picture.

In animosity of it's faults, you would like to enlarge the account and
frame it for your Ancestors gallery. With a photo editor, you and your
computer can accomplish the photo like new. First browse the photo at
400 dpi resolution. Save the book as a .tif and browse afresh extenuative as
a .jpg file. application the JPEG book to assignment with, accept the clone
tool to extend the corners and to abolish any marks in the photo.
The carbon admeasurement should be about alert as ample as the birthmark and
set to fifty per cent strength. Save your assignment afterwards ten or so fixes,
more depending on your RAM memory.

Photo

There are three basal methods of acclimation missing or damaged areas
in the photo. The antecedent breadth of the carbon apparatus is centered over an
area agnate to the missing application but undamaged. A fifty per cent
strength (eighty bristles per cent for skin) carbon besom acclimated in a borer motion will alter the damaged area. A additional adjustment drags the
clone besom and antecedent through the damaged breadth for replacement.
Finally, a third adjustment involves appearance out an absolute breadth that
is identical to the damaged area, authoritative it into an article and dragging
the article to the new breadth for a absolute fit. Some bend aggregate
may be necessary. assignment at the accomplished deepening accessible for an
invisible fix.

Most difficult are problems with the adenoids and eyes. If one eye is
undamaged, it may be accessible to accomplish an article of the eye area, cast
it larboard for appropriate and alter the damaged eye. Blend the edges and use
the cutting brushes for a accustomed look. Do not acuminate the eyes
too abundant or they will attending unnatural.

When annoyed with the retouching, accessible the histogram to amplitude the
contrast to a able level. I acclaim desaturating the angel and
using the blush antithesis to simulate the aboriginal amber tone. Some editors
have a appropriate amber apparatus for this purpose. For accretion added than
two hundred per cent, I acclaim application PureImage or equivalent
software to abate artifacts, bland out the one accent areas and sharpen
the edges. Your efforts will be able-bodied appreciated, for afterwards all, if it weren't
for your ancestors, you wouldn't be here.

Restoring an Old Photo