Digital Restoration from Start to Finish

This third edition of Digital Restoration from Start to Finish walks you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, GIMP, and more. This best-selling guide is now updated with the latest software advancements and new techniques, including hand-tinting in Lab, repairing water-damaged photos, and tips for the spot healing brush and masked layers.

No process detail is overlooked, from choosing the right hardware and software, getting the photographs into the computer, getting the finished photo out of the computer, and preserving it for posterity.

Learn how to:

Scan faded and damaged prints or films.

Improve snapshots with Shadow/Highlight adjustment.

Correct uneven exposure.

Fix colour and skin tones quickly with Curves, plug-ins, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers.

Correct uneven exposure and perform dodging and burning-in with adjustment layers.

Hand-tint your photographs easily.

Correct skin tones with airbrush layers.

Clean up dust and scratches speedily and effectively.

Repair small and large cracks with masks and filters.

Eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph in just a few steps.

Minimise unwanted print surface textures.

Erase mildew spots.

Eliminate dots from newspaper photographs.

Increase sharpness and fine detail.

Maximise print quality.