Restoring Photos

Some of the old slides and prints that I've scanned in have been damaged in some way, or have faded or become discolored.  Small scratches, dust, and discoloring are easily fixed with today's image editing software, but severe damage takes a bit of work to correct.

For example, the photo of my dad below was scanned from a slide dating from 1959.   Apparently, some sort of insect had eaten away sections of the emulsion, effectively erasing parts of the picture.  Using the "clone" tool of my image editing software, I "filled in" the gaps (blue areas) in the picture by copying nearby parts of the image into the gaps. 

Before computers, you'd have to pay an airbrush artist big bucks to do this (that's how they removed your zits in your senior portrait).
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