A Severely Damaged Photo Restoration (enlarged from 2"x3" to 5"x7")

[@arethafazekas7539]

It is years later but normally I will look halfway at an instructional video such as this and click off...I was able to sit thru the entire instructional and able to grasp what I could not in class...I have an old photo restoration assignment and now have a clearer understanding...Ive been having issues with layer masks yet now guess seeing how you applied and explained it is much clearer as well...Thank you so much

[@patrickmcsweeney2021]

Thanks George. I have just begun restoring my old photos and you have helped a lot with this video.

[@Qfoxrythm]

nothing feel better than watching an older person using a computer like a pro

[@jamisonjude4944]

Instablaster...

[@BigBlueRabbit]

Yes, most of these computer skills have been forgotten now. Shame.

[@nargizakhonusmankhodjaeva9988]

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[@pablitz696]

xd

[@wayneyeo186]

6 years since you posted, and I followed your instructions, and my ancient old picture from 1948, which was in similar condition to yours, turned out quite nicely. Thank you for taking the time to record and post it. You did an excellent job of explaining your techniques.

[@aninave]

Thank you! Excellent video, I needed one like this, more in depth and not only a "quick tutorial". Nailed it!

[@twirlspin7143]

So, its 5 years later I am using a different version of Photoshop, and this worked perfectly!!! Thank you so much for this. Watched more complicated video's today and I couldn't get it to work (removing stain or discoloration from a photo) and did it relatively quickly with your instructions!!! Thanks again!

[@wesleyk.8376]

Great job sir! You've helped me pick up a technique that I will likely begin using now. Great watch!

[@benjaminfrances]

Well done, that original image was absolutely destroyed, I like doing this kind of thing myself, but this is inspiring to me in taking the time and having the patience to do a good job

[@kenr6810]

WOW George! This is fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with this technique. I have just had our family's old (pre-digital era) photos digitized, over 1800 in total. Most are in good condition but I have about 80 or so which are tatty, torn or faded. I didn't think this would work out as well as your example but I have now restored 2 photos and they are looking really good. This process works well and I am gaining more confidence as I go. I have a long way to go to complete them all but thanks again for showing the way.

[@GeorgeInGeorgia]

Thanks! Glad it helped!

[@jtsclassictvnostalgia9670]

Hi George, I am just starting with photoshop and after watching this video, it has blown my mind as to what can be done. Thank you so much for pointing out some techniques, you have given me a lot of motivation to learn a lot more.

[@flyop312]

fantastic video I have a 50+ year old damaged photo to restore never done it before this will help so much cheers

[@kevinhancey1695]

Many thanks, as an old photographer I learned a lot about restoration from you.

[@lillylv]

Wow!! You did an amazing job at this! Thank you soo much! You helped me so much! I've been working on restorations and had never thought about using the paintbrush for filling in those hard areas. I am very appreciative of your tutorial

[@prakkari]

Amazing job. Everyone has his individual approach to things, whatever works is good. To take out yellow blotches and discoloration on a bw pic I usually start with th black and white adjustment layer and crank up the luminance in the yellow and red channels untill the luminance in the discolored areas are simular to the luminance around. A lot of bad things dissappear just by doing that. This is very helpful to take away yellowed tape residue. The healing brush can be used in different layer styles and worth to try it in darker og lighter mode for example to exclude different luminosities.

[@xenontouchstone]

Great work, you have opened my horizons as to what is recoverable with patience and skill.

[@timkasper544]

Great work, Great job explaining how you did it.

[@isaacselling1123]

This is great, love that you go so in detail on your whole walk through of this restoration. I will say all of those healing brush, clone stamps, and painting pits on one layer stressed me out a bit from a workflow perspective. I’ll make a layer that I only use healing brush on and then a layer for clone stamp and THEN a layer for painting, and one last healing brush layer on top of all of that to clean up any edges that the stamps or painting left that need smoothing out. Having all of those actions in separate layers helps a ton with going back and fixing a possible mistake. For instance sometimes when you find that you wish you used a different tool for a specific spot, helps to just be able to erase a tool use spot rather than having to rely on the history/undo utility 200 steps later.

[@adrianaromanini7016]

Thank you so much, George. This is really helpful, I've learned a lot. I've been restoring my family photos, I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised with the results. :)

[@GeorgeInGeorgia]

Adriana Romanini Thanks so much! Glad it helped!

[@tbyrd9772]

you are gorgeous

[@cliffordsalmon4744]

This is so helpful, many thanks George!

[@mjmott7041]

I think I could do this for a job and love every second of it

[@logothaironsides2942]

Nice. Clever use of that other photo. I use the smudge tool a lot for bits where I want an extension of a colour already there like here on your bumpers or his fingers because you are literally picking up the pixels and making them into paint.

[@cmurphy285]

This was an excellent video. Although I use Photoshop Elements, and have only been restoring for a short time, I loved watching the way you handled the left side of the photo. I now want full blown Photoshop!! There is so much to learn, but watching this gave me hope! I did not know about some things you did,, so that was, as a newbie, a real revelation. It doesn't hurt that this photo is way cool, and totally iconic and fun. Oddly, when I am working on old family photos, I feel like I begin to know the people in the photos I am working on, and I like imagining what their lives may have been like, and realize they were just like me - strange feeling to know that all our our grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, were just human like we are after all, and they were young and attractive in their youth. Thats what I love about doing this. I am restoring some photos of a work friend's brother who just died, and it gives me such joy because I know the family appreciates it and it is meaningful! Thank you!

[@dylandonaghue6750]

I have those thoughts too when restoring photos. I feel like the photos "talk" to me about the subjects' past lives, their relationships, hopes and dreams. I actually started this journey researching my family tree, and found that studying old records and photos produced a deep sense of connection and satisfaction in me. That research has progressed naturally into restoring old photos.

[@sandrampillay2652]

This is an excellent tutorial, much appreciated. Will be using your methods in my next project.

[@Kenaroni]

To flip a selection like the bumper end, you can go to “Edit>Transform>Flip horizontal”.

[@suerushton3709]

Aww fantastic but would have like to see more on the face so to learn how he corrected around the mouth. But still results were amazing 👏

[@JohnSmith-wth]

Really great work! I used to have a side business restoring photo's before a stroke. We work almost exactly the same. Nice tip on the Hue sat layer in the beginning. Having to use my old copy of Photoshop I refuse to pay monthly for it, that's extortion.

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

Such a great job!! Thanks for sharing your workflow.. I learned a lot!

[@Video2Webb]

I really learned from this tutorial and am very grateful! Thank you for your excellent work.

[@hollyjohnson9688]

Wow! Great job. I learned alot. Thank you very much

[@FourKnown]

Very nice job! I learned a few things. Thanks! One suggestion would be on copying the bumper for example, just right click inside the selection and click "Layer via copy" and then "Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal". Might be easier and will keep it the same exact size.

[@DailyMutt]

Awesome work. I learned some been techniques from your tutorial! The end result is incredible!

[@jazzperk]

You did a really good job on this, thanks

[@FBOMBTV]

Thanks George for the awesome video I’m currently working on very severely damaged portrait from the 50s and also in color well I thank you for the instruction and ideas you just gave me! Subscribed!

[@Marcelo-un6ku]

Great work! Thanks for sharing.

[@ramraja7796]

Well done George, it's come out quite good.

[@trendytree]

Fantastic!

[@photojunkysdronezonevlog]

Good work! Hope you are doing good.

[@chrisfor]

Very nicely done.

[@atomicorang]

Awesome job sir.

[@jay54733]

Awesome work mate!

[@jeremyhardy996]

Great work!

[@EdgeofBricks]

Really nice restoration!

[@annakennedy4452]

This is a great job!! Thank you a lot to share this knowledge with us!!!!

[@doublebasshq]

Bravo, George-this is so inspiring!

[@turtleturtle146]

Thank you for this video! I am working on an old family photo myself that has some damage. This helps a lot!

[@hertsman5]

Outstanding work ! Thankyou for sharing this...

[@nigelblanchard5571]

I can't afford Photoshop but really like the way George has handled the restore job - one of the best that I have watched and wondered if it is going to be possible for me to use Affinity Photo and hopefully follow along. My dad recently passed and I have his old RAF album and photos of just before and after the WW2 upto the 1960s and would like to work on some of the photos as many are damaged and very small 2x3 size which is due to the use of the box camera that Dad was using in those days.

[@jsewing03]

Nice job and video. I learned a lot. Thanks

[@leeseh7137]

Thank you, ...what photo scanner do you use? and what DPI do you scan at?

[@anthonynorton666]

There's a lot symmetry here. I'm at 24:39 and waiting for a tool that mirror reflects and allows for rotation around a chosen axis to fill in missing areas.

[@Cedarsea]

Hi George, wish you had included a copy of the image so we could follow along with your great tutorial!!!

[@genevievel5309]

Thank you for some lovely tips - Celine's Dad was really cute 😉

[@larryearly5916]

That was a great job.

[@blackie75]

amazing content, very helpful

[@GallenWWZ]

A crooked photo doesn't mean it's a distorted photo... Especially after the scanner...

[@vincentizizimo]

Wow! Great job!

[@dorisearsenaultcormier2482]

Wow simply amazing...

[@grampustechnews2074]

Awesome work

[@zeeahmed3123]

very informative video, thanks alot ☺️

[@RPGzen]

It was amazing.thanks 👍👍

[@Dottie1975]

thank you Sir ! I use gimp its like photoshop , learned a lot with this tutorial thank you so much

[@monaallhassan5191]

Great work thank

[@CozyRuinStudios]

Thank you for helping with my homework 😭😭😭

[@RickF-dw8cl]

Nice work!

[@albumjames5960]

sooooooooooo thanksful for the video.it was so amazing and hope i could do the same in a sooner time.

[@annaslikaite7900]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@GregoryJohn-vz1qw]

Sir I loved it can you help me to restore few pics of my family 👪please 🙏😊

[@SandraSallin]

Excellent. Are there classes you would recommend to learn how to do this?

[@terrylynnstudios]

How many hours spent on your restoration job?

[@PaulM_aka_4c21]

Excellent restoration ! Just a small question as not familiar with PS, can you not use the healing brush non-destructively in Photoshop?, in Affinity Photo I would add a pixel layer above then using the inpainting brush or clone brush set to this layer and below, so that all corrections are on new layers which can then be corrected later easily.

[@MrWiseinheart]

On the newer Photoshop there is that feature.

[@hilarysutherland682]

What software are you using to capture your screen? and record your voice? Thank you

[@sarahr6161]

Thank you very much for sharing this video. It is very helpful.

[@ws360photos7]

Thank you George, amazing

[@mrsrevjam]

AMAZING, FASCINATING, OUTSTANDING....

[@GeorgeInGeorgia]

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it...

[@DanteMx01]

Nice work

[@mikelee9914]

i have been working on one having a hard time on the face of two

[@kylemanuel4171]

Fantastic video - thank you!

[@rodrigoaguas5926]

Hey sir! new subscriber here. Thank you very much!

[@MSTrusAgent]

Why didn’t you show the printed version live and compare it to the original

[@Peter-bq2ws]

Great video leant a lot, thankyou

[@salvatoresalvatore5234]

Nice job !!!

[@johng0908]

Great technique!

[@GeorgeInGeorgia]

John Gilbert thanks so much John!

[@stevekelly727]

Great video. Many thanks.

[@ramichehab4797]

Well done is there no artificial intelligence algorithm that does this restoration?

[@scoozie]

THANK YOU GEORGE

[@morgaj21]

has he lost his cigarette?

[@kelvinskerritt1351]

VERY NICE!!!!

[@advocatemkjayant]

very helpful sir :)

[@drpentecost]

Great tutorial George. If you were going to do this type of work professionally, how much would you charge ? Also would you charge by the hour or a price for the entire job based on the photoshop expertise involved ? Thanks for your help.

[@meteorofficial2000]

I can do exactly what just George did Please send me an email for further detail Send to [e-mail] WhatsApp [phone]

[@DaniCamp67]

These are the other money makers when it comes to photos. And some people will pay a very high price to have old photos restored!

[@dduncan221]

Enjoy the tips thanks for share

[@aidansterling5415]

Good man, looking forward to this.

[@pmarech]

You erased the guy-wire and guard that ties the utility pole to the sidewalk

[@GeorgeInGeorgia]

Piercin Yes, very perceptive if you! That’s the liberty I took because it added nothing to the restoration and was at best distracting to the intent of the project. Thanks for your comment!

[@GeorgeInGeorgia]

@Taurus Black Yikes! Good catch! I didn't even see that one!

[@e.h.5849]

@@GeorgeInGeorgia also, the wheelless car ended up hovering above the ground. The front wheels seriously needed to stay where they were on the original. I'm not trying to be overly critical, just thought I mention it. Since you create new reality and adding new textures and make it appear as a part of the original photo, adding one more darker shadow where the front right wheel would have been, would add a bit more 3D effect and look more natural.

[@marcomolina4574]

hi george what is u e mail i wanted to leave you some old photograph i scanned wich has damage in the coilor it became very yelow with the time its from the 70s cant recall the ywear i was about 2 3 year old can u colorize it please i would apreciate it thanks

[@ChefFloyardee]

George, I have a couple (3-4) pictures that are badly water damaged. Would you be willing to fix them for me in Photoshop? I would pay you for your time, so please let me know!

[@adrianeditsofficial]

Hey Chef, I do the same thing George here does! If you still need this done let me know! :)

[@ChefFloyardee]

@@adrianeditsofficial Thank you! How can I contact you? Do you have an email? Please let me know!

[@adrianeditsofficial]

Chef Floyardee I do! You can email me at [e-mail]

[@ChefFloyardee]

@@adrianeditsofficial I emailed you! Please let me know when you get it!

[@meteorofficial2000]

May help u for restore u old pic Send to [e-mail] WhatsApp [phone]

[@hypegukhaa4904]

Idont have scanner

[@MrBarrytommy]

Thanks very good tips - cheers

[@evrentaskan3855]

It's great George G. Hoffman

[@iconictv221]

I wish someone could restore a picture for me

[@МарияМорозова-п5к]

thank you so much