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...
“Oversized prints present a unique challenge when it comes to photo restoration: They don’t fit most home scanners. This Scanning oversized photos video course explains by scanning the photo in two or more passes and stitching the image back together, you...
A new Photoshop Restoration techniques video course: “Replacing Backgrounds” has just gone live on Lynda.com. Course description for replacing backgrounds: A common photo restoration task involves replacing the background in an old photo—for example, to...
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...
New photo restoration course, recreating missing pieces has just gone live, the 5th in the series. Here is how it appears on the pages of Lynda.com “One of the most challenging photo restoration tasks involves recreating missing pieces of a severely damaged...
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,...
This post is a quick look at one part of the process of Colouring an image with multiple blend modes and coloured layers. It is just a brief look at a working image of how there are no set rules about which blend modes to choose when trying to colour an image. Its...
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...
This is the second part to colourising or tinting an old photo for part one see colourising or tinting an old photo – Part 1 With the colour swatches obtained in the previous part, we can select a set of tones that will suit the skin of the figure we are working...
