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This tutorial covers the technique restoring an old and badly damaged image

One of the greatest ways to learn Photoshop if you are a newcomer to it is to restore an old family photograph. Not only is project based learning the best way to get to grips with Photoshop, but at the end of the restoration you do have an image that often has a great deal on meaning to the family. The techniques we employ to repair badly damaged photographs are also those we need to learn for our more creative work, so we do need to understand the process well.

You can see our starting image below that is badly creased, faded, scratched and even has parts of the photograph missing. In repairing this picture we use the healing brush, clone tool, crop tool and burn tool from the tool box. We use selections, copy and paste, feather command and layers amongst others.

Not only can we repair the damage, but we can improve contrast and deal with the fading so that the end result is probably better than when it was first produced. We cover all the techniques in our video to show you how you can achieve the same results.