Removes stains from the grandfather's photo The tutorial was created by Afaq Saeed.
The most powerful tool for removing scratches, creases, stains, and removing dust is the AKVIS Retoucher plug-in. I found it on the internet while searching for an effective tool for removing scratches from photos. I downloaded the trial version of AKVIS Retoucher. It was very useful and it helped me very much in removing defects from my grandfather's picture.
Let me tell you how I used it.
- Step 1. First of all I opened my grandfather's photo in Adobe Photoshop. The photo was very scratched and it was not easy for me to edit it with Adobe Photoshop's tools because, when I used Healing Brush and Stamp tools I sometimes found some dark spots on my grand father's photo. So I decided to use AKVIS Retoucher. Before you can apply Retoucher you should select all imperfections. I switched to Quick Mask Mode and started painting over the scratches with Adobe Photoshop's Brush tool. I marked every scratch with the brush, so that my grandfather's photo looked like this.
- Step 2. Then I switched to Standard Mode for the selection of my photo's defects and I inversed the selection by going under Select and then clicking on Inverse.
- Step 3. At this stage I went to Filter - AKVIS and then Retoucher.
- Step 4. Then I launched the restoration process by pressing
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- Step 5. After this I pressed the button
 to apply the result to the image and come back to the Photoshop's workspace. Then I used Adobe Photoshop's Healing Brush tool a bit for the final touch-up. I am really very happy with this. Amazing, it was a great job by AKVIS software.
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