Photo Restoration: Recreating Missing Pieces

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Free Online Course: Photo Restoration: Recreating Missing Pieces provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Photo Restoration: Recreating Missing Pieces is taught by Neil Rhodes.

Overview
  • Learn the Photoshop techniques involved in recreating missing pieces of a vintage photo, from body parts to backgrounds.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What You Should Know Before Watching This Course
    • Using the Exercise Files
    1. Plan the Restoration
    • Evaluate and plan
    2. Restore the Easy-to-Fix Damage
    • Straighten, crop, desaturate, and remove dust and scratches
    • Use Content-Aware Fill, Patch, Clone, and the Spot Healing Brush tools
    • Repair the jacket and dress
    • Destructive vs. nondestructive editing
    3. Rebuild Arms
    • Use texture and shading to repair damage
    • Use the Patch tool to repair damage to arms
    4. Rebuild Faces
    • Use the Patch tool to repair eye and cheek damage
    • Use the Patch tool and Flip Horizontal to rebuild a face
    • Use the Patch Tool and Horizontal Flip to fix the chin and mouth
    5. Rebuild Hands
    • Plan and draw in the finger outlines
    • Use the Patch tool to recreate a finger
    6. Finalize the Restoration
    • Clean up restoration "evidence" and apply final touches
    7. Use Puppet Warp as an Alternate Technique
    • Replace an arm using Puppet Warp
    Conclusion
    • Next steps