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How to Restore Damaged Photographs

Restoring your damaged photographs takes patience and time. Spotting them takes a lot of work and it's best to practice on a photograph that isn't needed. Damaged photographs can also be scanned and restored with Photoshop or any other photo restoration software. Spotting in a photo software program is a lot easier and mistakes can be changed instantly.

Things You'll Need

Scanner
Computer
Photograph(s)
Photo editing software

Instructions

Photograph Restoration
- 1
  Connect a scanner to the computer/laptop. Clean the scanner glass before placing the photograph on it. This prevents from dust being scanned with the photo.
- 2
  Place photograph face down on the scanner. Be sure the photograph is place in the indicators to get a correct scan.
- 3
  In the computer/laptop open up Photoshop or any other photo editing software. Make spotting adjustments as needed.
- 4
  Adjust the color as needed in the photo editing software. Color shifting is possible to correct and any mistakes can be fixed accordingly.
- 5
  Make any other adjustments needed. Save the photograph as either a JPEG or TIFF file. TIFF keeps the quality of the image. While JPEG compresses the image so that it can be published on the web.

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