 |
| 
|
 Previous Page | Next Page
|
| How to Touch Up Photos with FotoFinish |
Retouching Old Photos: Removing Scratches, Dust, and Defects
 |
An old, scratched photo in need of restoration
Click on the pattern preview box to select a new area
Select a brush size
and then paint over
the scratch in your photo
|
|
Tucked away in a closet or attic, almost everyone has boxes and albums
full of old photos in need of restoration.
They can be torn, scratched, stained, faded, creased, or worse. The good
news is that you can scan these photos
into your computer, and restore them using the simple tools in FotoFinish.
To remove scratches or dust from a photo, use the Touch Up Tool located on the
Wizard Window. FotoFinish's Touch Up Brush lets you
paint over blemishes using a selected flawless area of your image as the "paint."
First, select a clean area of your image to use as the paint pattern. Click on
the pattern preview box to get a selection tool, then trace a rectangle
around the area of your image you would like to use as your paint pattern.
In most cases it's best to use a small selection similar in shade and color
to the problem area.
Next, choose a brush size, and then paint over the scratch or blemish. To help
a longer scratch perfectly blend in with the rest of your photo, you might
have to repeat this process a few times. Continue to choose small, clean
portions of the image and paint over the flaw. It might help to zoom in on the area in question.
If you have an image with a lot of tiny flaws and dust, Autofix might work best. Clicking
on the Autofix button in the Wizard Panel removes smalls specks by slightly blurring contrasting edges
in the image. Note: Clicking on Autofix repeatedly might make your image too blurry.
|
|
Select a flawless
portion of your image
|
|
Paint over the blemish
|
|
The restored photo
|
|
|
|
|
|
