Learning Photo Restoration with Photoshop

Learn how to repair and restore photos using Photoshop, Photoshop Fix, Lightroom, and Lightroom for mobile. Discover how to hide flaws, recover details, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know to use this course
• Exercise files
• The importance of preserving memories

1. Best Practices for Photo Restoration

• Scanning and scan services
• Photographing images instead of scanning
• The phone as a capture device
• Quick restoration with Photoshop Fix
• Lightroom as a homebase for your archive
• Importing and basic navigation in Lightroom

2. Preparing for the Restoration Process: Lightroom CC

• Assessing the project
• Multifile time saving tips
• Tricks to hide flaws and recover details
• Retouching and basic healing in Lightroom

3. Fixing Serious Damage: Photoshop CC

• File handling: Smart Objects and layers
• Resizing
• Selective blurring
• Selective sharpening
• Rips and creases
• Missing pieces or torn corners
• Stains and water damage

4. Finishing Touches

• Assembling pieces and creating frames
• Using Content-Aware Scale to adjust images
• Colorizing a photo

5. Unconventional Tips

• Recreating missing pieces by mirroring
• Borrowing content from within a photo
• Dealing with warping fragments
• Practical magic for changing expressions

6. Managing and Sharing

• Pushing images to Lightroom and beyond
• Printing services
• Showing your work: Spark

Conclusion

• Next steps