If exposed to floods you’ll need to know how to restore water damaged photos, to save your precious photographic memories. In the event your house has been exposed to a flood or water disaster there are things you can do to help stop the water damage. After this...
Want to learn the photo restoration craft? My new in-depth course should help you. The course “Photo restoration course fixing stained colour and damage” is now live. Some of the transcript and introduction are below so you can get a feel for what is...
Sometimes restoring a light leak or fogged film requires more than delving into the colour channels and making colour corrections. You can see below that I have shown you how to tackle restoring a light leak before. If you have negative that has fogged or had a light...
This month, Photoshop updates for photo restoration! New updates to Adobe Photoshop have given us some more tools we can use. Content-aware crop Useful for when we need to redo the image size or side ratio to fit particular standard print size. You could achieve this...
Batch scanning photos can be daunting but this breakdown of the process should help get you started. Time – Time is your biggest factor when batch scanning masses of photos. Planning and streamlining any process will make it far more enjoyable. Making a plan...
The “Dust and Scratch” filter is more useful than you might think. You can use it to remove large amounts of damage from an image. We often think of the “dust and scratch” filter as being something that removes simple damage. Small dust and...
Removing paper texture video course goes live on Lynda.com I am continuing to create new video tutorial courses of the way I do things and revealing industry techniques on how to restore old photos. “Many vintage photos were printed on textured,...
Photoshop Tutorial: Colouring intricate parts of an old photo with gradient maps . Colouring an old photo can take some time, its best to work with as many techniques as you can to get the job done. Such as colouring an old photo with gradient maps. Many people use...
Gimp Versus Photoshop – Removing damage from a soft-focus photo . . For any budding restoration artist, there are tools to help you do it yourself for FREE. What are these? I hear you ask. . Introducing GIMP, it is a free tool that works a lot like the...
I just spotted a video on Lynda.com, a very reliable online resource for learning. It describes using the “patch” tool as a useful tool for repairing scratches, tears and damage. . There is no doubt this tool is a great tool. In this case, I feel that...
