![]() It’s not quite finished, I'd argue – the face of the subject has a slightly unsettling, AI-style glow to it which isn’t hugely photographic. It’s sharper, clearer, the scanner tramlines are gone… it’s incredibly pleasing. I started a stopwatch and, impressively, the ‘after’ image was generated almost exactly 60 seconds after I opened it in Photoshop. Faded, grainy, and the victim of a scanner error which has left a pair of horizontal tramlines running through the top quarter of the frame – this is the kind of image that might have once taken hours to clean up. This image is highly representative of the type of image many people will be running through Photoshop's 'Photo restoration' filter. Incredibly impressive for a few minutes’ work. There have even been some convincing details added to the eyebrows which, as far as I can tell, aren’t in the original. And the skin detail, although perhaps just slightly smoother than it needs to be, is superb. The face is far clearer thanks to the grain removal. (Image credit: Future)īut the results are excellent. Although setting the scratch reduction slider higher did remove more of the scratches on the image, it also had a tough time with the vertical damage running through the right hand side of the subject’s face.Īlongside the 'Photo Restoration' filter you can choose a separate 'Colorize' option, which does a decent attempt at turning black-and-white shots into color ones. I set the 'Photo enhancement' and 'Enhance face' sliders to 50 and 60, respectively, and scratch reduction to 14. Grainy, faded, covered in scratches and stains and, apparently, at one point treated to a moderately severe scuffing from an orbital sander, the 'before' and 'after' difference is significant. This is probably my favorite image from the series I tested. Did I say that already? Impressive enough that my built-in skepticism of AI photo editing tools may have gone into terminal decline. I tested Photoshop's 'Photo Restoration' filter on three of the TechRadar team's old photos. My advice for best results: start with the highest resolution scan you possibly can. ![]() Of these, the JPEG slider – at least in my test images – appeared to do the least, but could nonetheless be useful if you’re the owner of a folder full of orphaned, heavily compressed JPEGs. There’s also a halftone artifacts reduction slider, which is useful for images that were printed on a halftone printer (think old magazine ads, for example), as well as a JPEG artifacts reduction slider. Noise reduction is in there – it's useful to have, although I felt that the default 'Photo enhancement' slider took care of much of the grain in the images. There’s even more if you unpack the 'Adjustments' panel. As ever, the less editing you can get away with, the better. At the very top of the control panel are sliders for 'photo enhancement' and 'enhance face', and it’s worth experimenting with these to see just what level of editing best suits your image. How does Photoshop's 'Photo Restoration' tool work?Ĭan you use the 'Photo Restoration' filter with just one click? You definitely can – even with just a few seconds' work, the tool will produce really pleasing results. If you’ve got a stash of old images that you’ve been planning on revamping, perhaps as a Christmas present, now’s the time to update Photoshop, dust off the scanner, and get processing. Images that were soft to begin with sharpened up considerably faces became cleared, and even images suffering from the pronounced grain that high-speed 35mm film can produce became clearer to a seriously impressive extent. Slightly annoyingly – as nasty reviews are more fun to write than positive ones – these produced results that were only a few steps shy of miraculous. Color shifts are neutralized, faces are detected and sharpened, and contrast is boosted to counteract the fading effects of age on old images. If you’ve got a stash of old images that you’ve been planning on revamping, perhaps as a Christmas present, now’s the time to update Photoshop, dust off the scanner, and get processing.Īt a minimum, the 'Photo Restoration' filter aims to do a few things. ![]() And it may, in fact, offer a few tools that will even improve modern images. Even left totally to its default settings, the Photo Restoration filter offered a definite, obvious improvement on every aged image I ran through it. Then I ran the 'Photo Restoration' filter and it’s fair to say my jaw hasn't left the ground since.
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