Scrap Girl

After sorting through some old black and white pictures, I found a few that needed repairs.  One was creased and had two holes in the picture.  It was also pretty dark and maybe was taken in a shaded area outside.  You can tell from the picture of my dad and his brother that they have sweet looks on their faces so I have been playing around with it a little bit today.  It needs more editing, but I was able to fill in the holes and repair some of the creases using a tool in Adobe Photoshop Elements called the Spot Healing Brush Tool.  I’ve had amazing results so far and if you have this software or others like it, I would encourage trying it out for blemishes, wrinkles, and touching up damaged pictures.  I scanned my picture into the computer and played with the image brightening dialog boxes to lighten up the picture and then clicked on the Spot Healing Brush Tool to try it out on the holes in the photo.  It is pure magic!  What it does is guess what the background was by what is already in the picture and fixes it.  You can also adjust the size of the tool to do big fixes or tinier areas of a photo.  I need to play around with this photo some more, but you can see the big holes I managed to fix in the picture.

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