Digital Restoration from Start to Finish: How to Repair Old and Damaged Photographs

by Ctein (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2017

  $55.21

  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 color and skin tones quickly with Curves, plug-ins, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers

  Correct uneven exposure and do 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

  Minimize unwanted print surface textures

  Erase mildew spots

  Eliminate dots from newspaper photographs

  Increase sharpness and fine detail

  Maximize print quality