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Matching grain for photo restoration Another fundamental of photo restoration is matching grain, this is process whereby any replacement part or new part of photo being added is matched into the existing tone and texture. This is done by adding grain or noise to the part being added to match the underlying texture. A combination of blur and noise several times may be required to get the... Read More

Hello everyone, continuing with the basic skills photo restoration tutorials, I have another here which touches upon matching the grain within a photo when replacing a background. You can read more about this topic in the matching grain blog post. Remember though only replace the background if you have to! The original one restored, will look far more convincing than one you made up yourself.... Read More

This is a follow on post from my original matching grain article a while ago. This is just one example of how to match grain when replacing a back ground or perhaps any part of an image.   Look at this image, it is part of a man’s shoulder and the background could do with evening out or replacing altogether.   Here I have just selected and deleted the back ground to white. It... Read More