Photo Restoration & Repair
Bring Damaged and Faded Photos Back to Life in Photoshop
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 Setup
- Handling and Triaging the Original PrintPreview
- Scanning at Archival Resolution🔒
- The Non-Destructive Restoration File🔒
Module 2: Recovering Tone, Contrast, and Fading
- Reading the Histogram and Restoring Black and White Points🔒
- Removing Colour Casts from Faded Prints🔒
- Faded Black-and-White and Sepia Recovery🔒
Module 3: Removing Damage: Dust, Scratches, Tears, and Stains
- The Repair Toolset: Spot Healing, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, and Patch🔒
- Dust, Scratches, and Surface Noise at Scale🔒
- Repairing Tears, Creases, and Stains🔒
Module 4: Reconstruction, Colour, and Delivery
- Rebuilding Missing and Torn-Away Areas🔒
- Adding and Correcting Colour on Monochrome and Faded Images🔒
- Finishing, Exporting, and Delivering to Clients🔒