Image restoration

Introduction The Hotel del Coronado of Coronado, California, a United States National Historic Landmark, photochrom print c. 1900. Image restoration uses software to undo the effects of age and damage upon digitized versions of historic visual media. Common programs: Photoshop (commercial) GIMP (open source) Example source media types: Photographs Lithographs Woodcuts This course introduces essential skills and techniques to restore material for encyclopedic use. After restoration.

Contents

• Concept
• Software
• Image files
• Image selection
  • A low resolution restoration
  • A high resolution restoration
• Basic steps of a restoration
• Uploading