Restoration of an Extremely Damaged Photo

In this tutorial, we will restore an extremely damaged photo portrait.

The photograph that we are dealing with here has all kinds of damage that we will need to repair. Major loss of facial detail, noise, tearing, dust and scratches are just a few of many things that we will cover in this tutorial.

Due to the amount of information being covered the tutorial is quite long. But in the end the results of the restoration make it all worth the time.

The tutorial detailing the complete step-by-step restoration procedure has been divided into 5 parts.

Removing Dust & Scratches
Background Dust & Scratches
Torn Photo Restoration
Restoration of Details
Facial Detail Restoration

Recommended Resources:

Books:
Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (3rd Edition)