Elements To Recover And Repair Old Photos

By David Peters

Pictures are a good way of capturing those moments which will linger in one's memories for a long period. Sadly, however, photos aren't able to keep up with the same quality as they age. Since pictures are mere paper they sometimes are affected by things like moisture, dirt and scratches and even light. The result is you will end up having photographs that are too light, have scuff marks and are no more looking that good.

Well when your pictures are looking too old and they no more look that attractive what do you do? Do you throw them away or you just watch them get even worse till they're no more visible? Well worry not for with Adobe Photoshop Elements you will be able to restore all your old pictures so they look good again as if they were taken just a couple hours ago.

As photographs are on paper and Elements is a computer program how then will you use the program to recover and repair your old photographs? Well the answer is you have to convert your pictures to a digital format. You do this by scanning your photos such that each photograph could be saved as a picture on the computer. When you have scanned the photographs you are only one step to restoring and fixing them.

With Adobe Photoshop Elements you will be able to open the scanned images of your pictures. When you open the photos you may now edit them as you want using the tools which are offered by the software. One thing you must keep in mind is to back up the scanned images in order to always go back to the original ones in the event of errors.

Now restoring your pictures when using Photoshop Elements is very simple and it does not need any skilled training, all the tools in the Adobe Photoshop Elements software programs are quite easy and simple to use. The most common tools you will use when restoring pictures will be the smudge, blur and sharpen tool, these are the tools you definitely will need to get to grips with.

Thus we are going to look at each of the three tools which you'll come across in Adobe Photoshop Elements and how you can make use of them in fixing your photographs. First the smudge tool, this tool is effective at masking any scratches which would have been on the original picture that you scanned. The smudge tool will also let you remove any object in the background you wish to remove and correct pictures that were not properly focused.

The next tool is blur tool. This tool will let you add some tone to photographs in order to appear darker than they originally did. This tool is very powerful when you are working with pictures which have deteriorated because of very long periods of exposure to sunlight. Thus you will be able to restore the color in your pictures therefore it looks bright and beautiful again.

The last most common tool you will surely use when restoring photos is the sharpen tool. This tool is mostly used to fix portions of an image which might appear to be blurred. When you scan old pictures that are now very light in color you'll find that many of the parts will appear a little blurred and this is what the sharpen tool is made to fix.

Remember there is no photo too old to be repaired by Adobe Elements.

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