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Restoring a Tintype Photo from the 1870s
Photo restorer Bob Rosinsky of Top Dog Imaging wrote an interesting article describing how he restored a tintype photograph from the 1870s brought to him by a client. My standard operating procedure...
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Time-Lapse Videos of Old B&W Photos Being Infused with Color
Earlier this year, we shared some amazing work by Swedish retoucher Sanna Dullaway, who takes historical B&W photographs and colorizes them. YouTube user IColoredItForYou is another master of...
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Operation Photo Rescue Restores Photos Damaged in Natural Disasters for Free
Natural disasters are tragic for many reasons. Assuming, most importantly, that you and your loved ones come through one such disaster healthy, you immediately begin the process of putting your life...
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Modern Editing Software Used to Improve Film Footage from the Early 1900s
Film footage from the early 1900’s, when hand-cranked cameras were all the technology available, aren’t exactly high-quality. Choppy, jumpy, and sped-up, the people in these films look anything but...
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Redditors Pitch In to Help Restore an 87-Year-Old Grandfather’s WWII Photo
Redditor Steven Withey‘s grandfather Derek is an 87-year-old WWII veteran who served in the Royal Navy, and a little while back he showed his grandson a badly damaged Navy photo (of a photo) of...
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Video: Photo Restoration and Colorization Demonstrated Through a Time-Lapse
Digital image editing technology — culturally controversial uses aside — has enabled us to do some pretty amazing things. In the past, we shared a video that showed how the Internet came together to...
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Lost Orson Welles Film Rediscovered and Restored by George Eastman House
When legendary director Orson Welles of “Citizen Kane” fame was all of 23 years old, he made his first movie meant to be seen by a paying public. Dubbed “Too Much Johnson,” the silent slapstick comedy...
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Graduate Photo Conservation Class Helps Restore a Grieving Family’s Photos
A graduate photo conservation class at the University of Delaware recently devoted its skills toward restoring damaged photos for grieving parents who lost three children to a fire late last year. 260...
View ArticleHow to Repair Old Photos Using Photoshop
Photoshop teacher Howard Pinsky shares this quick 9-minute video tutorial on how you can use Photoshop to repair old and damaged photos. The restoration is done using the Healing Brush, Spot Healing...
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The Magic of a Chemical Photo Restoration Process
If given an old print to restore, most photographers these days would probably choose to scan it and fix the image up in Photoshop. Japanese restoration expert Murabayashi Takao uses a different...
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Timelapse: Restoring an Old, Ripped-Up Photo
Here’s a great look at how far Photoshop can go in restoring a heavily damaged photo print. Argentinian photo restorer Hernan Folmer made the time-lapse above showing how he reconstructed an old photo...
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Restoring the Photos of Charles Conlon, A Pioneer of Baseball Photography
Charles M. Conlon was an early 20th century American photographer who was among the first to regularly photograph baseball games and players. Although he shot many iconic early photos of the sport,...
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These Photo Restorations May Boggle Your Mind
Tetyana Dyachenko is a Ukrainian photo retoucher who often does restorations of vintage photos that are extremely damaged — often seemingly beyond recovery. Yet using her Photoshop skills, Dyachenko...
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How Students Restored Photos Damaged by Hurricane Harvey
After Hurricane Harvey slammed Texas, there was a group of high school students who partnered with volunteer organizations to help rescure family photos damaged in the disaster. Here’s a 4-minute film...
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X-ray Beams Can Recover Lost 19th-Century Photos
There’s a new photo recovery technique that may help humanity recover some of the world’s oldest photographs that were previously considered to be damaged beyond repair. Researchers at the University...
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How to Colorize and Restore an Old Damaged Photo
Photoshop enthusiast Shawn Pollock has been practicing his skills at retouching and colorizing old B&W photos in recent days, and while searching for historical photos to work on, he came across...
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Rare Photos of Hitler from Glass Plates by His Personal Photographer
Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, was one of the infamous dictator’s primary propagandists, and tens of thousands of the photographer’s photos exist on glass plate negatives. Now a...
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A (Very) Technical Look at Creating an AI to Restore and Colorize Photos
In this article, I’m going to tell a story of how we’ve created AI-based restoration project for old military photos. Editor’s note: This article is highly technical and will not be easy reading for...
View ArticleWatch a Horribly Damaged 1903 Photo Get Expertly Fixed and Colorized
Photo restoration wizard James Berridge made this fascinating 15.5-minute video showing how he used Photoshop to restore and colorize a horribly damaged photo captured 116 years ago in 1903. “[…] I...
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You Can Restore an Old Pelican Case with a Heat Gun
I was recently offered a free Pelican case, and she seemed too young to die. She was structurally sound, so I felt some plastic surgery would make her look 10 years younger… and it did. I’ve actually...
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