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Photoshop Elements Tutorials For Beginners - Restore Your Precious Photos With Adobe Elements

by David Peters

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Photographs are a good way of capturing those moments which will linger in one?s memories for a long time. Unfortunately, however, photographs are not able to maintain the same quality as they age. Since photographs are mere paper they are often affected by things such as moisture, dust and scratches and even light. The end result is you will end up having photos that are too light, have scratches and are no longer looking that good.

Too many people are faced with the question of what to do with photos that haven?t withstood the test of time. Do you wait until they are no longer visible or do you simply toss them? If you are facing questions such as these you don?t have to do either. Using Adobe Elements you can restore your old photos to their original condition.

The first step to restoring your cherished photos is to create a digital image of them so you can then edit them using your computer. Converting them to a digital image is as easy as scanning them into your computer. Once you have scanned your photo you can then begin the photo editing process.

After you have opened Adobe Elements you can go to file and open to retrieve the newly digitized photograph. I actually recommend you create a copy, by clicking on file and save as then renaming the photograph, so that you have a backup image on the off chance that you make a mistake. Now you can begin to edit them using a few of the tools available in Elements.

Please understand that photo restoration doesn't necessarily require any specialized training or specific skills. The tools included in Elements are easy to use and you will quickly become adept at them. Tools you will use most often with photo restoration include the smudge, blur and sharpen tool.

I want to give you a breakdown of each of the tools and tell you how you can use them to restore your photographs. Let's start with the smudge tool. This tool is helpful when you want to eliminate any scratches or tears that are on the original photo. This tool can also be used to eliminate any objects in the background you wish to get rid of as well as correct photos that were not properly focused.

The next tool you can use is the blur tool. The blur tool allows you to add tone to photos that have been lightened by the sun; in essence you are making them darker. Using the blur tool you are adding color to retrieve the brightness of the original photo.

The final tool that is used for this process is the sharpen tool. If any parts of the photo are blurred, whether it is in the original photo or from scanning it in, this tool will fix those bits.

Remember there is no photo too old to be fixed by Adobe Elements.

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