In this video, I show how I colour correct and fix an old photo removing any damage that was on the negative. I use the colour and contrast tools in Photoshop, but the most of the work is done by the clone stamp tool.
The trick is to use a very small clone brush and to work the areas sympathetically, trying to replace missing colour with similar nearby tones. It takes practice and is fiddly work, but the clone tool can fix 99% of photo damage.
The process took just over fifteen minutes to complete and is compressed down in order not to bore you.
Background music: “Thing-Ummi-Jig” by Darren Lock (that’s me!)
