Repair Photo Scratches, Tears, and Spots

 
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Repair Scratches, Tears, and Spots on an Old Photograph

We will purposely avoid using some of the quick fix tools such as the healing brush so that you can gain an understanding of the basics of photo restoration.

Double click the new layer and rename it “Restoration”. Either lock or hide the background layer so that you can reference it later. Save often.

Select the Adjustment Layers pallet, then select Levels. Use the settings in this screenshot. Black point at 7, white point at 243.

Using a Soft Round Brush (B) of about 21 pixels, with a hardness of 0, and blending mode set to darken, start filling in the voids in the photo.

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