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Summary: Photo restoration service providers help you regain the clarity of your old and damaged photographs. This article offers some photo restoration tips so that even non-professionals can refurbish images at home. We love to cherish our old memories and photograph is the best medium that takes us down the memory lane. Thanks to the progress of technology, now we have digital cameras and can accumulate photos in digital format so that they remain the same for decades. However, 20-30 years ago, printing photographs and putting them in albums was the tradition. Old, printed photographs collect dust and get decayed over time and restoring them digitally is an intelligent solution. With the help of photo restoration service from a professional photo editing company, you can repair and store any old photo in digital format. However, if you want to do the image restoration work personally at home, here are some great tips for you. Use high quality scanner: A scanner must be used for converting the still photos into digital format and the clarity of the converted file depends on the quality of the scanner. Therefore, buy the best scanner available in the market and during scanning, set the resolution and color depth to the maximum level. Even if the original stills are in black and white format, scan them in color because it helps the machine collect more detail. If you notice a color hue, apply grayscale effect in computer. Keep the original safe: Before you open Photoshop to restore the images, duplicate the files so that even if you make any mistakes during the editing process, the original photos remain safe in your hard drive. This rule is followed by even the most seasoned photo restoration experts, because mistakes are a part of this job. Improve washed out photos: You can bring washed-out photos back to their original condition without much hassle. Open the image in Photoshop and duplicate it into two layers on the same canvas. After that, apply “Multiply" layer blending effect. This will darken and intensify your image. You can change the opacity as per your requirement to get the best results. Sharpen the photo: You can apply a sharp or un-sharp mask effect to make the lighter and darker areas in the image more prominent. Get rid of blemishes: Since the photos are quite old, dark patches or dust marks are quite bound to be there. Don’t worry. You can remove such blemishes very easily by applying the “Liquify” filter in Photoshop. If you want to remove small spots like a scratch on the chin, use the “Heal” tool carefully on the affected areas to remove the imperfections. Use the clone tool: The clone stamp tool is any photo restorer’s best friend. You can use it to copy skin, background or anything else and paint the copied portion at any place in the photo to make it look perfect. Curves tool: The final thing you need to do is to make sure that color saturation is perfect and natural. Therefore, create a steep color curve for the complete photo or certain parts of it (face, cloth etc). Play with the color curve until you are satisfied and then augment or reduce saturation level to ensure that the edited portion fits perfectly with rest of the image. Hope these suggestions will help you in the photo restoration process. Jason Aldein is a professional photographer who has excelled his career in photo restoration service and through his design he has drawn maximum amount of attention of customers.
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