Digital Restoration From Start to Finish: How to repair old and damaged photographs

by Ctein

Digital Start to Finish guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, plug-ins, and Picture Window. Nothing is left out, from choosing the right hardware and software and getting the photographs into the computer, to getting the finished photo out of the computer and preserving it for posterity.

With this book you will learn how

. scan faded and damaged prints and films
. improve snapshots with the Shadow/Highlight adjustment
. correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with Curves adjustment layers
. scan and recover nearly blank photograph
. fix color with Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers
. fix skin tones with airbrush layers
. hand-tint a photograph easily with masked layers
. fix color with plug-ins
. clean up dust and scratches
. repair small and large cracks with masks and filter
. eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph
. minimize unwanted print surface textures
. erase mildew spots
. eliminate the dots from newspaper photographs
. increase sharpness and fine detail in a photograph

Genres: Photography, Reference, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2006

Reviews

[Tim Wilder]

The best book on photo-correction that I have found. The software that the book covers quickly goes out of date, and I have the third edition of this book (after having used the first and second editions) and even that is old now.

[B · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not a person that does very well with reading something in order to learn how to do it. I'm a visual person. With that said, I had no trouble with this book. It had easy instructions and great image examples that even I had no problem understanding. I love this book. It's my go to when I'm looking for away to improve an image that just needs a bit more love and attention. I will keep this for years to come. Hands down one of my best buys.

[Leni D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good info.