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Benefits Of Restoring Old Photographs

Old photographs that have not been printed on archival paper would tend to fade over time and even start losing portions of the images due to discolouring. Restoring such photographs by scanning them with a professional digital scanner and then recovering the faded areas, will ensure that these original photographs are now digitally preserved for future generations.

Two very important factors to consider is to use a high quality, professional scanner that ensures you scan to at least 300dpi in order to ensure that the images would be good enough to print. A second factor to take into account is the use a high quality photo editing tool such as Photoshop in the editing and restoring process.

The photo editing tool should at a bare minimum have the capability of removing faded areas, remove any colour casts, as well as be able to make use of content awareness in the removal and correction of scratch and stained areas in the photographs.

With all the latest social media sharing platforms such as Facebook and Pinterest, it has become part and parcel of the platform to share images with friends and family. What better reason to have your old photographs restored and shared with your family and friends, to bring back those old memories and create even more awesome discussions with friends and family.

A third benefit of restoring old images is the use of these images in genealogy applications. Old photos will definitely add so much more value to your own history. Having documented all the names and dates of your ancestors could be further enhanced even more if you add pictures to these names. This would be a great benefit for generations to come. Converting such historical information and the added photographs into a genealogy book will even further enhance the experience of everyone reading your book, if they could put a face to a name.

In conclusion, with all the latest technology available there is no reason why you should not seek professional help with restoring your old photographs and have them digitally secured for the enjoyment of sharing them with family and friends, and their preservation for future generations.

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Create Frightening Photos

Choose a subject

Ask a close friend or family member to be your model for this scary shot, and set up a camera on a tripod. Firstly, take a photo of a room which can be used as the background in the completed image. Making sure that you don’t move the camera and without adjusting the settings, ask your model to position themselves in front of the camera in the same room where you took your background image. You will need to take a photo of your model on a prop that provides a raised surface from the ground to give the impression that they are levitating. A ladder, table or chair will provide you with the effect you need, but ensure safety precautions are taken at all times, and help your model on and off the platform. Make sure that you don’t move the camera when you are taking the photograph.

Make use of photo editing software

Using a photo editing program of your choice, load your digital prints and place both the background photograph and the image of your model side-by-side in the software. Using your mouse, place the image with your model on top of the original background image. Both photographs should be lined up correctly. Set the image opacity for the photograph with your model to around 50% by using the opacity tool in the control panel of the software program. Experiment with the different settings.

Use filters and layers

To create a ghostly image of a person levitating, use a layer mask from the control panel of your software program and use an eraser or brush tool to cover-up the prop that you used in your second photo. Because you used the opacity tool in the previous step, the area which contained your prop should be filled with the underlying background image to create a scary levitation effect. Save your image and send your levitation photography to family and friends.

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