Photo Restoration: Recreating Missing Pieces

Learn the Photoshop techniques involved in recreating missing pieces of a vintage photo, from body parts to backgrounds.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What You Should Know Before Watching This Course
• Using the Exercise Files

1. Plan the Restoration

• Evaluate and plan

2. Restore the Easy-to-Fix Damage

• Straighten, crop, desaturate, and remove dust and scratches
• Use Content-Aware Fill, Patch, Clone, and the Spot Healing Brush tools
• Repair the jacket and dress
• Destructive vs. nondestructive editing

3. Rebuild Arms

• Use texture and shading to repair damage
• Use the Patch tool to repair damage to arms

4. Rebuild Faces

• Use the Patch tool to repair eye and cheek damage
• Use the Patch tool and Flip Horizontal to rebuild a face
• Use the Patch Tool and Horizontal Flip to fix the chin and mouth

5. Rebuild Hands

• Plan and draw in the finger outlines
• Use the Patch tool to recreate a finger

6. Finalize the Restoration

• Clean up restoration "evidence" and apply final touches

7. Use Puppet Warp as an Alternate Technique

• Replace an arm using Puppet Warp

Conclusion

• Next steps