restore old moulded photos

[thierryv]

Hi,

i have a batch of old photos which got moulded and I need a hand in restoring them. It looks complicated and  I don't exactly know where to start from.

Thank you for any help you could give me.

Thierry

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Lynda.com have several online video courses on photo restoration, typically:

Learning Photo Restoration with Photoshop

Photoshop: Photo Restoration

You can get a 10-day free trial to try them.

[Kristian Gabriel]

This is actually a very severe photograph--though it can be fixed. Ultimately you are going to need to do the following:

• Use the Clone Stamp Tool to copy and replace severely damaged skin and textures with undamaged skin and textures in other parts of the photograph.

• Since some of this is so severely damaged--you may need to copy similar features from another photographs and/or airbrush and recreate parts of eyes, hair and face to get more definition.

This would be a great place to start. Everything can be fixed--but you might have really take to that next level--. Old Photo Restoration - YouTube Hope this helps!

[CarolineJane]

Adobe Photoshop is a perfect tool to restore old photos. 

These steps apply to digital photo restoration using the latest version of Adobe Photoshop.

1. Digitize your old photo.
2. Open the image in Photoshop.
3. Crop, straighten, or rotate the image.
4. Review your photo for any corrections you want to make.
5. Make the necessary adjustments to your image.
6. Apply a filter to reduce noise.
7. Save the newly restored image.