Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours

Chapter 16. Repairing Black-and-White Pictures

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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Adding contrast to a faded photo

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Dodging and burning to bring out lost details

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Covering up small flaws

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Repairing physical damage to an old photo

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Applying color to a black-and-white image

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Until now, most of the image flaws we’ve seen have been part of the picture, either as a component of the original image or as detritus from the process of getting the picture into your computer. In this hour and the next, we take a look at some pictures that have just had a hard, hard life. All old pictures are damaged over time, even ...