Photo Restoration: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Great how to book on photo restoration. The book covers equipment needed, software, analyzing photos, scanning, and fixing many varied defects. Well worth the price. I am just learning Photoshop by reading other books and doing many projects. This book will not teach you Photoshop, but will teach you what Photoshop tools to use and how to use them for restoration. Really love the suggestions on how to organize the layers as you work. Covers Photoshop Elements as well, but to a lesser degree.

Great book on restoration. I had over 2000 slides and pictures to digitize and restore and the book really helped me with some of the more finite problems of restoring and cataloging. Needless to say I'll be at it for a while be so far it's going well.

I'm a fan of the "From Snapshots to Great Shots" series but this one fell a little short for me. If you're looking to restore your own family snapshots, this is a good resource. If you want to start a business, look for additional resources.

Good quality product. Works well as a bathroom mat.

Not as detailed as I had expected.

Fantastic book, I love this guy and his writing style...a very easy read and to follow. You won't be disappointed.

Still learning from the book.

I enjoyed reading this book; it has confirmed many of the things that I already knew and sharpened my grasp of several topics.However, I think it takes an over-complicated approach to choosing scan resolution. Here's my approach. First, do a test scan as follows: snapshots at 400 dpi, studio portraits at 1200 dpi, and 35 mm slides at 2400 dpi.If you are scanning a roll of film, scan the first snapshot at 400 dpi, then zoom in until you begin to see loss of detail. If this is caused by blurriness in the snapshot, then your 400 dpi scan resolution is capturing all the detail possible. You might lower the scan resolution to 300 dpi, then 'way in on this new image until blurriness occurs. In any case, if blurriness occurs because you are seeing square pixels, raise the scan resolution and try again. I find that 400 dpi works OK for handheld snapshots.Studio portraits are typically much more detailed. I'd go for 1200 dpi. And 35mm slides (which are actually 36mmX24mm) do well at 2400 dpi (taken with a handheld camera).Doing this "zoom test" gives you a higher resolution digital image to work with. Later, you can downsample if needed.You won't want to scan at a modest, space-saving resolution only to find later that you want to crop a detail (like one person's face in a group photo) and find that facial details are pixelated.Processor speeds are fast, and storage is cheap. Use it.

this book is very informative, very well written. although it is written specifically for Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements), i've found that almost all of it applies equally well to Corel Paintshop