Digital Restoration from Start to FinishWydanie 3

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