Restoring old photo prints is something I do just for Photoshop practice. There are far better re-touchers out there than me with my meager skills. Today a neighbor asked me if I could take an old photo print scan it into the computer and erase the background as she wanted to share the photo on Facebook but was not happy with the baked goods background. Here is the raw scan...
Raw scan of the 5x7 print after cropping.
After scanning the print at 300dpi, I spent about 20 minutes extracting the background.
After removing the background,
Workable but my neighbor is a very nice person and deserves a better image for her Facebook avatar. Back to Photoshop...2 hours later, a new background, color correction and re-lighting...
Unfortunately some of the highlights were blown out
in the print a little beyond Photoshop's ability to recover
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