This is my favorite topic of the series. Old (analog) photos will most likely have lost their color, due to the exposure to UV rays. Those rays wear down the pigments and there is loss of color. The other phenomenon that happens is that the contrast in the photo slowly fades as well, since the […]
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This is something I still struggle with, mostly because I haven’t done a lot of them yet: removing the texture provided by the paper the photo was printed on. I’ve seen a few tutorials in the internet about how to remove the texture, but most of them are focused on black and white photos and […]
View ArticleThe second part of the process is removing dust and scratches from the photos. To remove the dust and scratches digitally, I use Photoshop. By default, the scanner software opens the TIFF photo in Photoshop. At this part of the workflow, I use Photoshop to rotate and crop only, I don’t do any dust cleaning […]
View Article It ended up that I was able to get my hands on photos to do restoration with. I don’t have any personal ones here in Australia because all the ones my mother would take when I was growing up are with her and she doesn’t live here. So I relied on the ones provided by […]
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