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Restoring Wood Grain

Restoring Wood Grain

When restoring old photos, you’ll likely run into more than a few wood floors. In early portraits, mostly the 1860 -1870 variety, the studios themselves often had wood plank flooring. Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that the wood floor pictured in the photograph is a mess, which chances are it will...

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Glamor In Restoration

Glamor In Restoration

Does beauty retouching have any place in photo restoration? Well, up to a certain point, yes! We can smooth out the skin, sometimes, as far as removing texture and pixelation, but must be very careful to leave those things that create the character, such as wrinkles. Of course, we should never manipulate a photo...

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