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Phil Hawkins has been a landscape Photographer in Yosemite National Park for twenty-two years and an avid user of Photoshop for the last seven years. In this tutorial, "Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration - Image Acquisition and Retouching", he will begin by teaching photography concepts: image color, film grain, tonal range and cropping techniques, will be covered. Next, he will move into acquisition methods such as scanning and importing. Once the image has been brought into Photoshop, he will discuss file management, resolution and bit depth. He will follow up with color correction, composition and finally image restoration. This is a project based tutorial that will help any Photoshop user from version 5 up to the current CS and beyond. To begin learning today, simply click one of the topics below.
Hello and welcome to VTC's tutorial Photoshop Image Restoration. My name is Phil Hawkins and I have been a landscape photographer in Yosemite National Park for twenty-two years, and I have been using Photoshop to manipulate my images for seven years. Now this tutorial will not focus on a particular Photoshop version as all of the concepts of image restoration will be applicable to most versions back to version five. But where there are specific tools available on later versions, those will be noted. Also this tutorial will assume that you know nothing about Photoshop and you want to learn about the program and the concepts of image restoration and manipulation in general. Now we will not be teaching you the tools one by one and then leaving you to figure out how to put them into practice yourself. Instead, we will teach you how to take corrective or restorative measures and the lessons about the various powerful tools in Photoshop will come as a means to an end, which is always, in my opinion, a better way to learn. You will understand what the tools are and how they work better by pursuing specific projects. And we will also explain the concepts of image color, film grain, tonal range, color saturation, cropping, and many other concepts about photography that you will need to know in order to fully understand image restoration. We will discuss scanning concepts in detail. You will have a complete working knowledge about scanning images when you complete this tutorial. Now we will restore old photographs, color correct photographs, and many other processes that will make you a Photo Restoration wizard. Now my instructions and advice in this tutorial are based on my own personal experiences with Photoshop and some of what I say will fly in the face of what the manuals and the conventional wisdom might recommend. Photoshop, in case you are new to the program, is the world standard in image manipulation and graphics production. It is a professional, extremely comprehensive application that has become an industry in and of itself. There are Photoshop websites, conventions and training seminars. Companies exist that do nothing but develop Photoshop add-ons that enhance and expand the programs creative scope. No one knows everything there is to know about Photoshop. It is just too large and comprehensive. Even the developers at Adobe will tell you that they themselves do not know everything the program can do. Indeed I will teach you things in this tutorial that you will then take, experiment with, and then develop your own way of accomplishing the results you desire, and that's great, because there is no one way to do anything in Photoshop. Whatever works for you is as legitimate as anything you can learn in a manual, even here in this course, and maybe some of the others that VTC offers on Photoshop. Now I use a PC with the Windows XP operating system, so my keyboard instructions will be referenced in that format. If you are on a Mac, please note the following difference throughout this tutorial. When I speak of the control key or Ctrl key on the keyboard, you will look for the command key on the Mac. So now, open Photoshop and by the way, feel free to pause this tutorial, try what you learned for yourself. Lastly, a word of caution. Doing photo restoration in Photoshop is an addicting pursuit. Many a time I have been absorbed in a project and suddenly it is two AM, and I am thinking time flies when you are having fun, and I will bet the same thing will happen to you. Ready? Well, that is great. Here we go.