Digital Editing & Restoration - How to Restore Old Photos

Got stacks of slide carousels loaded up with old family photos? Save these memories for future generations by digitizing and burning them to DVDs.

Step-by-step techniques and tips teach you how to scan and restore your precious family photos. Includes suggestions for cropping images, fixing scratches and flaws, removing red eye, enhancing faded photos, and colorizing old black and white images.

Preserve your precious family memories by transferring them from bulky, deteriorating videotapes onto DVDs. This guide walks you step by step through the process, from the necessary hardware and software to capturing and editing your video and burning the results onto DVD.

Tutorial explores three different Paint Shop Pro techniques (colorizing, duotones / tritones / mixtones and underpainting) that add color to greyscale images in very different ways.

Step-by-step tutorial with examples makes it easy to add color to your old greyscale photos.

This wonderful tutorial walks you step-by-step through scanning and editing a photo. Includes tips on everything from cleaning the scanner and selecting the resolution to removing dust specks and changing backgrounds. From the Silicon Valley PAF Users Group in Adobe Acrobat format.

Enhance your old black and white photographs by colorizing portions of the image with these step-by-step instructions from Shuttertalk.

This Canvas tutorial provides quick, easy steps for repairing common problems with digital photos including torn edges and cracks, stains, rips, and loss of color and definition (fading).

David L. Mishkin discusses the five recognized forms of photo restoration: digital, chemical, physical, copying, and airbrush.

Halvor Moorshead, Editor of Family Chronicle Magazine, discusses the many ways that genealogists can make use of a scanner. Includes tips and tricks on image compression, optical character recognition (OCR), photo manipulation, storage space and making prints.