Photograph Restoration and Enhancement

Book excerpt: While focusing on Photoshop CC 2017, this book offers users of all versions of Photoshop comprehensive projects that will guide them through the process of creating professional restorations and enhancements. Whether you are new to Photoshop or an experienced user, this book and its companion videos and projects will teach you to repair all types of photograph damage, multiple ways to improve discolored photographs, a variety of ways to digitize photographs too large to scan, create the highest quality images at manageable file sizes, colorize black and white photos, and how to add and remove content from your photographs. This building-block style book is packed with inventive, easy to apply photograph restoration and tonal correction techniques for returning cherished memories back to their original grandeur, and enhancement tips for converting digital and print photographs into treasured favorites. Key Features: • Seven demonstration videos on how to perform key restoration and enhancement techniques: Using the Quick Mask mode, the Layer via Copy command, the Polygonal Lasso tool, the Clone and Patch tools, the Liquify filter, plus multiple ways to repair Red-Eye, and how to redo areas of your restoration • Hands on projects provided with each chapter, specifically tailored to reinforce the tools and techniques introduced in the chapter • Includes colorizing of black and white photographs • Packed with Photoshop quick tips for efficiency and accuracy The Companion Files (Included with this text and also available by contacting the publisher by writing to: [email protected]) • Photographs to complete all projects covered in the text • Extra Try It Yourself Projects for each chapter • Copies of all figures used in the text • 7 Demonstration videos