working with black and white photographs

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Loring Hutchinson
Nov 11, 2006
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I recently came across some black & white Civil war era photographs of my great grandparents. I want to clean up these old photos and put them in my Family Tree software that I use in my genealogy studies.these photos have some hole, creases, etc that I feel I canfix up.

Is there a simple way to do this. Ity seems to me that I may have software (photoshop) that is a vast case of overkill. Looking at the Help files in photoshop, I’m thinking, "this is going to take a lot of effort to learn toget my desired results"

Any suggestions/comments/etc will be appreciated.

TIA
Loring H
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Roberto
Nov 11, 2006
Photo restoration is never ever quick, easy or otherwise. It takes time and it takes skill. That is if you want to do a good job. Look for the book "Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (3rd Edition)".

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Nov 15, 2006
Hebee Jeebes wrote:
Photo restoration is never ever quick, easy or otherwise. It takes time and it takes skill. That is if you want to do a good job. Look for the book "Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (3rd Edition)".
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I second that! If your new to Photoshop, however, I would seriously recommend Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book. Even after almost a decade of using Photoshop, I never bothered to get familiar with the whole tool until a couple years ago. Then after you have gotten a general taste of Photoshop, The aforementioned book is unbeatable. In fact, there is a companion book to "Restoring & Retouching" by Katrin Eismann called "Masking & Compositing," which I worked through first. I am now working my way through "Restoration & Retouching" and don’t let anyone tell you "Anyone can ‘Photoshop’ a picture." I have heard this unfortunate statement on radio and television. I took a recent Photoshop User’s Group course given by National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) http://www.photoshopuser.com/
Visit this site to see if classes are coming to your location at some time. It is worthwhile and very motivating.
The instructor ended the day by saying Photoshop is a life long learning process. As stated above by Hebee Jeebes, it takes practice to learn this process well.

Help files are more like an encyclopedia, which does not take you through the learning process in a logical way.

I have heard some kids say anyone can do Photoshop. They learn something like how to remove blemishes and wrinkles with the "clone" and "healing" tools or how to remove "redeye" and think they are experts.

Jim Hawkins
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PS: I wish they would add an option to the "redeye" tool for other colors. Some animals, display "greeneye". It can be fixed in other ways, but I think a simple target color option added to the redeye tool would be a nice option to the default "red".

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