Advanced Filters for Photo Restoration: Part 1

As you have seen in Chapter 3 , Photoshop’s Filter dropdown menu has a variety of filters for basic correction and artistic effects. However, as you saw with the Blur Gallery filter, some filters are combined into one workspace area. This is true of other advanced filters that we will be looking at in this chapter and later in Chapter 5 . Some are specifically for correcting distortion in a photo, and others blur the line between restoration and adding an artistic effect. Many of these filters have been in Photoshop for many years, while others have been recently added or updated. In this chapter we will be taking an overview look at certain advanced filters that would normally be used for restoration and color correction in professional digital photography. However, I will be pointing out sections of these filters that you may want to experiment with on your scanned images as an alternative to the basic filters that were discussed in the previous chapter.