Photoshop Tutorial- How to Repair an Old Photo [In Depth] Intermediate.

Excellent overall methodology to repair an old faded scratchy photo. Uses curves adjustments to first tone down overcolors. Use of dust and scratches filter. Uses patch tool to fix larger scratches and tears. He also show a method to adjust curves for a specific area.

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These are the best tutorials we found that show you how to repair a photo, restore photos, and how to fix a photo

We found all of these photo shop tutorials very helpfuly in restoring and repairing photos.

Photo Repair and Restoration video tutorials

Healing brushes, Patch tool tricks: Photoshop retouching

This tutorial concentrates on cleaning spots and blemishes from faces using the spot healing and healing brush as well as the patch tool. Nice easy explainations, plus a few power tips.

ranash1995

Old Photo Restoration

by rberg

This tutorial is mainly about tweaking a faded

photograph. Rberg has a knack for explaining

things as if he was talking directly to you. He has

mastered the art of explaining his thought

processes while he is showing you how to do

something. He covers how to sharpen up faded

photo using channel mixer to adjust red green and

blue channels.

Photoshop - Photo Restoration 3

The third lesson in the Photoshop photo-retouching tutorials. Learn the major tools associated with retouching and digital refurbishing of photographs.

The author gives a comprehensive demo of the clone stamp tool and its uses.

IveyDesign

Adobe Photoshop tutorial - old photo restoration part 1

This is spoken version of this video which orignally was timelapse. Nice techniques. Healing brush, clone stamp, filling in missing areas.

you can get part 2 here

Bryan Burch

IceflowStudios

Photoshop:Old Photo Repair

This tutorial deals with repairing rips, scratches,

and improving the overall quality of an older image.

The author does a good job of explaining use of the

spot healing tool and the clone stamp tool - When to

use them and when not to. He speeds up some of

the repair work to save your time. Once repaired he

shows how to use, adjustment layers for levels,

black and white and hue and saturation to tweak the

over look of the photo.

Top 10 Restoration and Repair Tips

2. Use history panel to save headaches later.

1. Scan at at least 300 dpi. Always save orignal layer. Maintain the integrity of the pictue by always using original textures and objects to fix.

3. Remove Dust and scratches on entire picture, then mask back faces and details.

4. Use Blur tool for neck and face shadow creep.

5. Spot healing brush works well on right angles, also make brush as small as possible to cover scratch or mark.

7. Use existing body areas to repair their opposite missing or damaged areas.

8. Use original object from picture, i.e. bushes, sky, shoes, hair, etc. To fill in missing areas.

9. Create a texture from a flat area of the original picture, then when the picture is finished use it in the texturizer tool.

10. Use channel mixer to sharpen faded sepia photo. Also consider HDR Toning.

6. Use patch tool to repair flat areas, also remember fade option for patch and other tools.