Picture Repairs or Cleaning: Paintshop Pro or other editors.

[VintageKell]

Picture repair or cleaning using Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro or another program .... in this case a very old version of Paintshop pro v0.6 (now v0.9) can make a big difference to what is posted up.

Cleaning:

Before and After:

The picture was obviously scanned with mildew spots and dirty ..... So using minimalist cleaning techniques ("Least is Best") I cleaned the face, skin and hair line by cloning from good sections. I removed a few white spots as well, but didn't paint or redraw anything.



Photo Repairs: Folds and Tears etc

Before and After:

The original has - rips, fold marks and missing sections ... the repaired version has most of these removed .... oh and to show what can be done I took out a fence post from the foreground



The tricks are;

• Practice, learn how to use the editing tool properly for what you want e.g. I use the clone, auto fill, colour selection (from picture), repair and draw tools, and
• Patience ... I expand the picture up to a larger size and make lots of tiny changes, so that they can be easily undone, and not large section changes (where an undo, removes good and bad sections).

Both these pictures are from posts in my main thread ... no doubt photoshop experts will add technical explanations and descriptions, but the old family photos can be improved. I can't give technical help, I fly by the seat of my pants myself