Basic Filters for Photo Restoration

As you work through the process of restoring photos, whether it be to repair minor rips and tears, for selective color correction, or to attempt to fill in gaps after straightening the image, you will encounter various additional correction issues. With older photos and slides, there are always situations where you need to deal with multiple scratches and dust particles that are small, but too time consuming to correct one at a time. After cropping and straightening the image, when you begin the process of filling in the gaps in the image using a selection tool like the Magic Wand tool and then the Edit > Content-Aware Fill command and Clone Stamp tool from Volume 1, you may find this to be a fairly easy process. However, the consequence of doing so without adequately cleaning up all the dust particles overall can result in incorporation of more dust added to the newly generated pixels around the border. Refer to Figure 3-1.