I recently scanned in a set of my mom's photos so I could make copies. Before I could do that, I had some repairs to do, so I fired up Adobe Photoshop Elements. I used primarily the clone and the healing brush tools to do the restorations. As a result, I was able to restore quite a few old photos. I was able to repair two badly damaged vintage photos--one of my grandparents and one of my great-grandparents. I also reparied an old-style family photo taken when I was a child that was damaged and had a background that didn't cover the photo area completely. That is the photo I posted here. You can see the before and after versions. In order to remove dressing area was visible in the photo and cover it with the backdrop, I copied part of the backdrop and put it on another layer. I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the area not covered by the backdrop and stretched the copied backdrop layer to fill it in. I merged the layers and then used the clone and healing brush tools to blend in the new portion of the backdrop so that it looked natural.
I'm quite pleased with how this and the other photos turned out. I'm getting quicker with using the Photoshop tools. I'm really enjoying being able to repair and restore these photos, too. With each restore, I am preserving memories!
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