Course Overview
Learn to restore photographs in under 3 hours! In this course you will take 3 old photos and fully restore them. Using a variety of tools like clone stamping, heal brushing, gradient maps, free transforms, curve and level adjustments, you will learn to use these tools to restore ruined photos to their original glory and even better than the original!
Lessons
14
Length
2 Hours 53 Minutes
Level
Intermediate
Required
Photophop CC
Stitching
Clone Stamping
Pen Tool
Free Transform
Gradient Maps
Curves
Levels
Healing Brush
Sharpening
Part 1
Extract and align
How to make and save detailed selections, make layers with layer masks, align layers in free transform and use the clone stamp tool to re-create missing pixels.
Selections and clone stamping
How to re-create missing or damaged pixels using the clone stamp tool and pen tool. Using selections with cloning.
Gradient Maps
How to fix color aberrations using gradient maps.
Fixing bends and kinks
How to fix highlights from bended photos and get rid of kinks.
Levels, curves and localized color corrections
How to color correct and adjust contrast using levels and curves. How to do localized color corrections.
Healing brush for dust and scratches
Cleaning up all the dust and scratches manually to maintain amazing detail using the healing brush tool.
Lossless sharpening
Lesson 7: Lossless sharpeningHow to do lossless sharpening on localized elements.
Part 2
Setting your white and black points
How to set your white and black points with curves and masking adjustment layers
Contrast, Camera Raw filter and creating clouds
How to add an S-curve, use the Camera Raw filter, color range selections and create artificial clouds
Dust and scratches filter & creating sepia
Using the dust and scratches filter, adding layer masks, use the healing brush tool and creating a sepia effect
Cleaning up imperfections
Using the Black and White filter, cleaning up imperfections and making local adjustments
Quickmasks
Making detailed selections with Quickmask.
Adjustment Layers
Making adjustment layers with masks to adjust elements separately.
Compositing and blending
Using masks to make a composite and blending layers. Using gradient maps to colorize a photo and creating photo grain.