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

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, 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

• Use adjustment layers to correct uneven exposure and dodge and burn

• 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

Ctein is a photographer and artist living in Daly City, California. He is a photographer, artist, and contributor to The Online Photographer and co-author of the bestselling thriller Saturn Run.

Third edition published 2017
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Second edition published 2010 by Focal Press
First edition published 2007 by Elsevier Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ctein, author. Digital restoration from start to finish : how to repair old and damaged photographs / Ctein.
Third edition. New York : Focal Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Includes index. LCCN 2016018183
ISBN 9781138206946 (hbk)
ISBN 9781138940253 (pbk)
ISBN 9781315674414 (ebk) 1. Photographs--Conservation and restoration--Data processing. 2. Photography-Digital techniques. TR465 .C79 2017
DDC 770--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018183

ISBN: 978-1-138-20694-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-94025-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-67441-4 (ebk)

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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish

How to Repair Old and Damaged Photographs

Third Edition

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