Do you have a pic that needs to be photoshoped?

gaga_luv

I'm pretty handy at removing blemishes in pictures.
But editing colours in pics too.
Don't let it be too complex, I'm only 14

ScumLord

If your just looking for photos to get some practice on you could drag the family album behind your bike for a while and then fix all the damage.

Or you could try fixing up the photos in the family album without causing them sever damage, there's plenty that can be done to the average old photo like colour correction. If you need more material you could always call into your local old fogies home and ask there. I can guarantee you if you put the word out locally you'll have dozens of people looking to enlarge tiny old photos.

I don't know that you'll have much luck getting strangers off the internet to send you their old photos, and especially since your in the wrong forum.

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Tactical

gaga_luv wrote: »

I'm pretty handy at removing blemishes in pictures.
But editing colours in pics too.
Don't let it be too complex, I'm only 14

Me too :eek:

(Not the 14 years old bit though)

In fact I even do this to earn a living

Seriously though, just get out there with any digital camera and shoot, shoot, shoot. You'll get plenty of images to practice on that way. Plus it'll also help you with composition and exposure, depth of field etc... that you just won't get if you're simply editing other peoples shots. A good practical understanding of the basics of shooting will help you with editing.

In addition, scan as many older printed pics as you can and that way you'll have loads to practice on.

Loved the suggestion of dragging the family album behind the bike I think I've been given a few of those to restore on occassion

VanGo27

What is the best way to get old photos into the computer do you think? Would love to "improve" some of the too. K

NealB

Use a neg scanner if you ahve the neg, or just scan the photo.

ScumLord

Would it be better to send them somewhere to be scanned? Some old photos can be fairly small and consumer scanners aren't the best.

NealB

I wouldn't bother sending them out to be scanned. The photos are most likely not going to have much detail if they are small and you can't create detail that's notalready there. Either way even a basic domestic scanner today will produce perfectly good results.

If they are small photos and you want to blow them up scan at the scanners highest resolution. Ideally print resolution is 300dpi, so if you scan at 1200 you can blow a photo up to 4 times its original size. (you can blow up further but keep an eye on pixellation). You are going to need a photo editor like Photoshop to do a clean up and adjust the contrast, tweak colour shift etc, it's amazing what you can achieve, even rebuilding missing parts of photos using the clone tool.


Printing them out is where I would spend money, domestic printers don’t produce great results and the inks are not long life so they can fade quickly.