Digital Restoration from Start to Finish, 2nd Edition

Chapter 9

Tips, Tricks, and Enhancements

How-To’s in This Chapter

How to scan very contrasty photographs with Picture Window

How to eliminate the dots from newspaper photographs

How to increase sharpness and fine detail in a photograph

How to make a photograph look like a tintype

How to combine scans to make one large photograph

Introduction

Every photograph is unique, and so is every photo restoration job. Many photographs have common characteristics, though, so I’ve concentrated my instruction to this point on the tasks that benefit the greatest number of photographs. I’ve grouped those tasks into broad categories and chapters of shared purpose, ...