Chapter 6. Fixing and Retouching Photos
How often have you thumbed through photo albums and found images you’d wished were better composed or lit more evenly? Or maybe you’ve sorted through shoeboxes from the attic, disappointed that time and age have taken a toll on those wonderful old photographs of your dad in his high school band uniform and your grandparents honeymooning at the lake. Until recently, there was no simple way to correct or repair photographs, regardless of whether they were out of focus, water damaged, or poorly composed.
All that has changed. Nowadays, armed with little more than an inexpensive scanner and a copy of Photoshop Elements, anyone can retouch and restore old photographs. In this chapter, you learn not only how to ...
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