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What’s New in February. Photoshop Elements Restoration Projects. Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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What’s New in February Photoshop Elements Restoration Projects
Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Because we cover so many subjects, we usually can’t fill the pail on them. My hope is to light the fire of interest so people will continue on with what we start. For “What’s New” let’s learn some valuable photo restoration skills using Photoshop Elements.
We offer lots of great new things to learn about! Elements is a prime example and our Lesson Plans have recently been upgraded to Version 12. This is a powerful piece of software that can be purchased for under a $100 (at some places on sale for around $60). On the site I say, “When you start using this program, think about a drawing board. I worked for a large advertising agency years and years ago, and one of my favorites spots in the building was the Art Department. There were 6 drawing boards in the room, each surrounded by exactoknives, charcoal drawing tools, paints, pens, pencils...I even liked the multitude of erasers lying around!” Photoshop Elements is like your own drawing board. You have a wide space for the image you are working on, surrounded by the tools you need for just about any project you can imagine…like restoring precious old family photos or getting rid of Red Eye on recent ones.
This is my mother many years ago. I really didn’t think we could bring this one back, but surprisingly it rejoined us with a little bit of TLC. We loved seeing her face because she looks so much like my granddaughter!
Take out the pole, bushes and blur the third person in the image to feature this sweet moment between dad and daughter.
This is actually one of the very first classes I taught at Richland. Once called Wardrobe Malfunction, I changed the name after my daughter heard what it was called and became overcome with uproarious laughter! It is now called Wardrobe Repair. Notice how much help we have given the Witcher woman there in the middle. The image was cropped, the color enhanced, the stripes removed from her blouse, her pants lengthened, and the liquify tool used to make her thin.
Evil eye—red eye ruins images. This is a condition that is easy to repair with Photoshop Elements.
Jack the devil or Jack the darlin’? Easy to fix with the Pet Eye tool.
Here is a stalwart fellow that should not be ignored. We use different techniques with each of these images to demonstrate some of the many options and tools Elements provides.
Ready to fade away, I found this image of my great grandmother in my parent’s basement. I was told she was given to raucous behavior, but you couldn’t tell that by her angelic pose here!
The rabbit was my favorite part of this picture and it came right back to life with just a little help. I had to sharpen it quite a bit which I usually prefer not to do, but it gave me the detail I wanted—you pick your battles!
What can I say about Mr. Kister here. Cute either way. Coloring it does give it a different look and is very easy to do.
A lovely photo I collected from http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html where we send students on the website to find images in the public domain. I like it just like it is but color adds interest.
We needed to improve this photo for a newsletter. I removed the glasses glare from both eyes, removed the stray hair and the glare from the wall. Now we’ve got a good picture.
