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Restoring an old photo

Restoring an old photo

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Restoring an old photo

- [Instructor] Family photos are a treasure, and so it makes sense to do as much as you can to preserve them. Lightroom Classic offers some features that you can use when restoring old photos, but when you really do a deep dive into photo restoration, you're going to have to take your photos from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop. So one of the things you might do in Lightroom Classic is to try to fine tune the color, because old photos of course, fade and get color stains on them. I'll take this photo into the develop module, and I'm just going to use the white balance eyedropper to see if I can take out some of the warm tones in this photo. With this eyedropper, I'll just click on something I think should be gray, like this. And that has a big effect on the color of this photo. I'm actually going to take the yellow slider and drag it back over to the right just a bit. And the magenta slider, too, because I think it…

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