Does anyone know how to do a photo restoration?

Horse with no Name

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Sun Jun-12-11 07:06 PM
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Does anyone know how to do a photo restoration?

Pic is from circa 1967...faded photograph. I'd like to have it restored. It is a color picture.

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ohheckyeah

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Sun Jun-12-11 11:47 PM
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1. I've had some pretty good results

using Photoshop CS5. It's a tedious process most of the time. I restored a photo of my father-in-law that was in bad shape.

Want me to give it a try?

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Horse with no Name

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Tue Jun-14-11 08:56 AM
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7. I'd love it

Edited on Tue Jun-14-11 08:57 AM by Horse with no Name

but I don't have a digital copy of it.:(

Thank you for your generous offer.

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Pharaoh

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Mon Jun-13-11 02:21 AM
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2. google it

I'm sure you can get good info as to how to. Likely hobby restorers will to help you out.

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ohheckyeah

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Mon Jun-13-11 05:11 PM
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3. There are tutorials on the internet

at least for photo restoration in Photoshop.

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Stevenmarc

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Mon Jun-13-11 08:09 PM
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4. Most of the Epson stand alone scanners come with

Pretty adequate automatic restoration software. I find it gets 80%-90% of the work done, the finale work can be done with photoshop

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Horse with no Name

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Tue Jun-14-11 08:57 AM
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9. Thank you for this.

I didn't know that.

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alfredo

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Mon Jun-13-11 11:01 PM
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5. You can have it restored professionally.

Do you have a digital copy of it?

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postatomic

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Tue Jun-14-11 02:06 AM
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6. I can. But it's tedious as hell and boring

There are lots of good places that do it for a fee. I'd suggest going that route which I think has already been mentioned.

I only do it now with photos that have some connection/memory for me. It helps with the boredom of restoration. A pro doesn't care. They just restore the photo and go onto the next one. Lots of these places will have before and after images so you can see their work.

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Horse with no Name

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Tue Jun-14-11 08:57 AM
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8. I remember someone telling me that

which is why I don't mind having it done professionally.

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