How to Restore Old Photo into a New One with Photoshop-photo-restoration

Restoring Old Photo

Digital photo restoration has complete it possible to renew old photographs that are almost certainly collect dust in your storeroom.Over the years, your old photographs degrades through a diversity of ways like desertion, cracking, and crease. Fortunately,quite a few advancement has been made which not only restore the old photographs but also protect them for your future generation. In my article I’ll share 3-4 techniques bring old photos back to life.

Here is the demo of Before After Photograph after restoring criteria--

For photo restoration process we need-

1. Photoshop CS6 

2. A scanned version of an old photo.

3. Knowledge about basic Photoshop

Now here we start our process of renew the photograph

Step 1: Choose a random photo to edit. Here we choose a yellowish old photo to convert

Step 2: Apply auto color function to correction the primary color balance and overall shades. Its gives photo the coolest look from the original

Step 3: Run your cursor to the Image > Auto Color (shift+Ctrl+B). Click this option once and see the transformation instantly. If you want more accurate result you can keep clicking this option multiple times till you get your desired result

Step 4: Now we can still do better editing with further process of color balance. To open the “color balance” Go to image > adjustments > color balance. It has two sub categories. One is color balance and tone balance. We can change color balance manually from this color slider

Step 5: To give a natural photo finishing Go image > adjustments > Hue/saturation. Drag the saturation slider to minimize color saturation of already applied color effect

Step 6: Now you can evaluate the difference of old and new one by preview button and can easily change them before making the final approval

Always remember photo editing greatly depends on quality of the scan photo. Make sure to scan a photo with high-quality scanner to better photo transformation.

The photo you want to preserve , you can now easily keep them safe and beautifully to convert and retouching the photo with Photoshop

You can learn more about restoration in our another BLOG

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