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Photo enhancement and restoration
Anyone is capable of restoring and enhancing old and new photographs. I recommend photo
editing software Adobe PhotoShop Elements and learning how to use a few Photoshop tools such
as cloning and healing. Like any skill, practice will make you proficient.
In my opinion photos and slides should to scanned into digital format. These images degrade over
time or get dirty and dusty, even if you can't see this by looking at them.
Thinking about digitizing your family photo album or an old picture?
A lot of my clients take my classes and discover they scanned their images at the wrong dpi
(resolution) and their images are useless. If you want to scan and reprint an image you need to
print at 300dpi or higher.
Scan your slides at 1200 dpi
Scan your images at least 800 dpi
Some scanners have photo restoration software like ICE that can clean up some of the dirt and
scratches when you scan an image. It won't get all of it, however.
My advise is this: If the image is pre-1960 do not use ICE or other photo restoration software.
Images 1960 to today try the ICE and see if it works. Pre-1960 images have an old look about
them, and using ICE you lose the look. Also, certain older images use grainy photographic paper.
ICE technology can't read the paper or the image and you can get odd looking results.
Don't try and resize an image that is 4x6 inches into a poster size photograph. Small images can
be grainy or fuzzy (even if it doesn't look that way to you) and oversizing them can lead to a
unfortunate result. Typically, you can size up 1 or 2 sizes over original. Sometimes I don't even
recommend doing that.
Two sizes over original. Let's say you have a 4x6 inch image. You may be able to size this 5x7 or
8x10 inches.
Take time be patient and be rewarded
Enhancing and/ or restoring a bunch of photos and slides can be overwhelming but knowing how
to take out a thumb print or dirt or fix a tear or bend in an image can be very satisfying.
Here are some photo restoration examples.
Anyone is capable of restoring and enhancing old and new photographs. I recommend photo
editing software Adobe PhotoShop Elements and learning how to use a few Photoshop tools such
as cloning and healing. Like any skill, practice will make you proficient.
In my opinion photos and slides should to scanned into digital format. These images degrade over
time or get dirty and dusty, even if you can't see this by looking at them.
Thinking about digitizing your family photo album or an old picture?
A lot of my clients take my classes and discover they scanned their images at the wrong dpi
(resolution) and their images are useless. If you want to scan and reprint an image you need to
print at 300dpi or higher.
Scan your slides at 1200 dpi
Scan your images at least 800 dpi
Some scanners have photo restoration software like ICE that can clean up some of the dirt and
scratches when you scan an image. It won't get all of it, however.
My advise is this: If the image is pre-1960 do not use ICE or other photo restoration software.
Images 1960 to today try the ICE and see if it works. Pre-1960 images have an old look about
them, and using ICE you lose the look. Also, certain older images use grainy photographic paper.
ICE technology can't read the paper or the image and you can get odd looking results.
Don't try and resize an image that is 4x6 inches into a poster size photograph. Small images can
be grainy or fuzzy (even if it doesn't look that way to you) and oversizing them can lead to a
unfortunate result. Typically, you can size up 1 or 2 sizes over original. Sometimes I don't even
recommend doing that.
Two sizes over original. Let's say you have a 4x6 inch image. You may be able to size this 5x7 or
8x10 inches.
Take time be patient and be rewarded
Enhancing and/ or restoring a bunch of photos and slides can be overwhelming but knowing how
to take out a thumb print or dirt or fix a tear or bend in an image can be very satisfying.
Here are some photo restoration examples.
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This photograph from the early 1970s (I am the little princess on the right) had a lot of dust and scratches
on it. You can learn tips and tricks to easily fix this. You don't have to be a Photoshop Guru to do this. I teach
my students to make great photographers even better.
on it. You can learn tips and tricks to easily fix this. You don't have to be a Photoshop Guru to do this. I teach
my students to make great photographers even better.
You can restore older photographs with a little bit more time and effort. Having a photograph professionally restored can
cost money. Why not learn to do this yourself.
cost money. Why not learn to do this yourself.
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