This is a photo of my husband, David, with his father and grandfather.  The color was off and the details This were not clear.









This is the photo after I edited it using Adobe Photoshop.
Here are my steps in editing the photo.
1. I cropped the photo to remove the black border.
2. I clicked image and adjustments and then curves and reduced the amount of red in the photo.  I adjusted the blue and green a bit as well.
3. I clicked image and adjustments and then brightness/ contrast and brightened the photo and increased the contrast a bit
4. I clicked image and adjustment and then hue/ saturation and moved toward more saturation .
5. I used the spot healing brush to remove some white specks from the photo.
6.  There was a scrapbooking tape stuck on the original photo and I used clone  and the healing brush to fix the suit.  This was the hardest part of the job.  I redid it several times before I was happy with it.  There are some errors but all in all I think that It turned out pretty good.


I really enjoyed this project.  I had watched all the Lynda.com videos and purchased a book on Photoshop and have been learning a lot.  I think that this will be helpful to me in the future in my role as family historian.  We have a large family and I have boxes and boxes of old photos.  I especially was delighted to learn about adobe bridge which allows cataloging without repeatedly saving photos into separate files.  This will save me tons of disk space.  I was horrified to learn that every time i save a jpg I was losing quality.  Lesson learned I will save things as tif or raw in the future.  I was able to share what I learned with a friend that just got adobe Photoshop.