Evgeniya & Dominic Righini-Brand

Beginner’s Guide to Retouching Old Photographs in Adobe Photoshop

Hi Troy! Thank you for sharing. Wow, yes if this was originally a colour image — it is difficult to tell — then it is so badly faded that you'd be better off converting it into a black and white image. This would also give you a chance to further work with the image's exposure and levels. Having converted to black and white you could also consider adding a sepia or selenium toned look. Dom

<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/8a8ec7aa66a0f320b2ed0aa3347b9879/3962a05b.png 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/8a8ec7aa66a0f320b2ed0aa3347b9879/3962a05b.png 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/8a8ec7aa66a0f320b2ed0aa3347b9879/3962a05b.png" loading="lazy" alt="Retouching Old Photographs - image 1 - student project">
The image is so sun faded I think I should have turned it into a BW image.  All in all I am happy with how it turned out though.
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/8a8ec7aa66a0f320b2ed0aa3347b9879/be170d66.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/8a8ec7aa66a0f320b2ed0aa3347b9879/be170d66.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/8a8ec7aa66a0f320b2ed0aa3347b9879/be170d66.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Retouching Old Photographs - image 2 - student project">

Retouching Old Photographs

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