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Photography

Photo Restoration & Repair

Bring Damaged and Faded Photos Back to Life in Photoshop

12 lessons4 modules9h 55m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

Photo restoration is a chain of distinct skills, and a beginner who jumps straight to the Clone Stamp on a bad scan usually makes the image worse. This course walks the full pipeline in the order a professional works it: capturing a clean high-resolution scan, doing global tone and colour-cast repair before any retouching, then removing damage from coarse to fine using the right tool for each defect, rebuilding torn and missing regions, and reconstructing colour on faded or black-and-white originals. You finish able to take a creased, faded, water-stained print and deliver a corrected file that is both archival-quality for printing and properly sized for screen, plus a simple way to price and present the work to clients.

Curriculum

Module 1: Capturing the Original: Scanning and Setup3 lessons
Module 2: Recovering Tone, Contrast, and Fading3 lessons
  • Reading the Histogram and Restoring Black and White Points🔒50m
  • Removing Colour Casts from Faded Prints🔒50m
  • Faded Black-and-White and Sepia Recovery🔒45m
Module 3: Removing Damage: Dust, Scratches, Tears, and Stains3 lessons
  • The Repair Toolset: Spot Healing, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, and Patch🔒55m
  • Dust, Scratches, and Surface Noise at Scale🔒50m
  • Repairing Tears, Creases, and Stains🔒55m
Module 4: Reconstruction, Colour, and Delivery3 lessons
  • Rebuilding Missing and Torn-Away Areas🔒55m
  • Adding and Correcting Colour on Monochrome and Faded Images🔒50m
  • Finishing, Exporting, and Delivering to Clients🔒45m
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