One of the best books is Photoshop Restoration and Retouching -- by Katrin
Eismann, which I highly endorse. There are large topics on restoration in that
text. I've read it cover-to-cover and still find tidbits.
If it's such an important photo, I'd have it professionaly restored, which will
probably cost $50-150, depending on the state and amount of restoration work
necessary. They will get the best result, and you'll get off the hook for
something so important.
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>Subject: [OM] Photoshop Question
> From: "Terry and Tracey" <foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:52:36 +1000
> To: "Olympus mailing list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Hi everyone. My name is Tracey, and I'm married to a Zuikoholic.
>
>Foxy urged me to drop the list a note and see if anyone had any idea's that
>might help me out. Just keep in mind that I am neither a photographer -
>apart from the point and shoot variety - nor a photoshop user. In fact, this
>is probably my first time using it to any great advantage.
>
>A friend lost her father last week, and while she was away attending the
>funeral, her husband found the only photo of her dad that she has and asked
>a friend to scan it for him. In a round about way, it ended up with me, and
>I naively thought I could do something with it. It's a black and white
>photo, taken around 1956, and was in a fairly damaged state. At some point
>it had been ripped and cello-tape was used across the front of the print to
>repair it.
>
>So, I've scanned it at 1200 dpi, in TIFF format and made a bunch of copies,
>so that if I totally stuffed up I could go to a fresh one. I opened it up in
>Photoshop 6.0, converted it to RGB, blew it up to 120%, and using the clone
>tool, I'm just going along row by row to clean out the scratches, bubbles
>and creases. I've had some success with the ripped areas that are missing
>pieces of print, although, I need to add more varied texture in those areas.
>Moving the clone origin around seems to help smooth out repetitious area's.
>I've tried not to remove too much, as I don't want it looking sterile, just
>repaired.
>
>Is there a better way of doing it? I'm absolutely flying by the seat of my
>pants here. I've never done any work in photoshop apart from blurring out
>the occasional redeye, and I really only seem to be using the cloning tool
>with any success. All those other tools have gotta be useful for something,
>right? I seem to be taking the cautious way, slow and steady, and though I'm
>not looking to rush this, I've gotta hope there's a faster way of doing
>this. If anyone has any experience with repairing tears and removing old
>cellotape marks, or similar darkened stains, I'm willing to listen. Any
>advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Tracey
>
>
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