This week we’ll cover some photo restoration tips that you may not have thought of. The idea came up because the area I live in experienced one of the worst storms in our history. Even if you weren’t impacted, the chances are that you or some one you know has photos that may need help over the years. Enjoy!
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I wish I had seen the part about neural filters prior to the vintage photo project I have nearly completed. What about getting rid of texture from textured paper that is visible after a scan? I used Topaz for most of my results but in some cases it was less than satisfying.
Wow! Great timing! A cousin dropped a picture frame with a photo of her mother, The photo was damaged, She took it to a photography store to have it scanned in at 1200 DPI and sent it to me as a TIF.
Your advice on restoration is going to give me a great starting point.
Matt, I am available to help folks with photo restoration. I have made a post in a few different places around social media, but any help you can give in expanding the audience, might help people.
Great video, I renovate many old photos, the oldest is 108 years old, you didn’t mention that the Neural Filter also has color conversion which is quite amusing and completely changes the final product (even if the colors are not always correct) there is no doubt that AI has added a lot to our lives 🙂
Bravo! I’ve been using photo restoration since Photoshop began offering it, and I am thrilled with the results. My old photos will never be perfect, but that’s not the goal. They’ll be even better with a couple of tips I learned from this video. Thank you.
Good information as always. Many thanks.
Excellent examples and advice. There are a couple of restoration projects that are waiting for me to get started. I was not, yet, aware of how advanced the tools are in Photoshop, for this type of photo-restoring. Your video is really helpful and motivating! The whole process will be faster than ever!
Thank-you!
Yay! Thank you. So helpful. Now I can look forward to digitising those old photos as a winter project.
Thank you Matt!
Just bought the Apple iPhone 16 Pro and just read that Apples’ up and coming AI software update failed miserably with its editing removal tool!
Yay for Adobe! PS Stay safe Matt..hurricane Milton is making landfall in 2 days! Hoping we will survive this one!
This is excellent.
I am an amateur and on occasion do restoration of old photos for friends and family. The updates to lightroom and photoshop continue to make things easier and faster.
I would welcome a course from you on photo restoration.
Hi Matt,
I got my first job in a photo lab that was geared towards professionals in 1980. We had a department that did photo restoration. The artists worked on duplicate prints we made of the originals, they hand painted out scratches and distractions with brushes as well as air brush spray guns, then a finished duplicate print was made. The results were pretty good but it was sometimes days of work. We also worked with slide film work for advertising projects where images were retouched for special effects. I used to take a photographer’s 35mm slides and duplicate them with Ektachrome 8 x 10 duplication film. The retouching artists worked on these doing air brushing and often physically cutting and pasting until a finished composite was done, then we made a duplicate to send to the ad agency or print house.
OK, so now I am almost 70 and retired but I retouch old family photos using Photoshop and yes, it is much easier than before!
I can’t view the restoration video on YouTube. I get a message sayin I need to sign on. When I click on it I get a totally unrelated video.
Hi. I’m not sure what would cause that but I can verify that the video is above and indeed the correct video.
I 100% agree with your comments about generative fill. It has saved me a lot of time in working on problem areas in old pictures. In addition to fill, generative expand has also been a great tool in restoring missing details along borders.
You hit the nail right on the head with the major, recent advancements in PS and in not trying for pixel level perfection. Thank you!
Along the lines of restoring damaged photos. A friend asked me if I could fix some photos of his old girlfriend that had faded badly and the color looked terrible. He copied them with his phone and emailed them to me. Never having done that before I made up a try. I converted them to b&w because I rarely do color and corrected them as best as I could. I kept the files rgb and used the colorize in the nural filters and got surprisingly good results with just some tweaks. Is there an easier/better way should this come up again?
Thank you. Your stuff is always great and truly helpful. Those of us who struggled endlessly in the past to achieve results now possible in a couple of clicks and strokes are really feeling old! Such is the price of progress.
Thanks again, Matt. Looking forward to your sessions at theePhotoshop Summit.