How to repair damaged images

Have your family photos encountered a bumpy journey over the years of handling, storage and exposure to the elements? Looking through your album, you may have old prints that have become faded, tattered or stained. However, with a little effort you can attempt to amend and restore them with some careful repair work. To enable retouching and repair in an image-editing program, we’ll need to import the original print into a digital format.

Walter Colaiaco explains how old images can be repaired through careful application of specific software techniques.