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Doing some post work on the old photos

Doing some post work on the old photos

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Doing some post work on the old photos

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Once you start digging into old family prints, you're going to inevitably run into the photos that are discolored and faded and generally old looking. If you want to take these and mix them in with shots that you're shooting with your current camera, you're probably going to want to do a little correction to them. I'm not going to be able to correct these back to the full level of color that I'm used to from a newer shot. Allot of color information in here has simply been lost over time, but there are some things that I can do to make them look better. I've digitized these. I've got them here in Photoshop. I'm going to a couple of very simple correction things here. I'm doing this in Photoshop using the levels control, and I've chosen to do it that way because almost any worthwhile image editing program is going to have a levels control. And so you should be able to do this no matter what is it your wherever it is you normally edit your images. So, I'm going to open this first one up…

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