Digital photograph restoration

See also: Photo manipulation and Image processing

Before and after composite on a restoration of a 1911 portrait of baseball player Ed Walsh.

Digital photograph restoration is the practice of restoring the appearance of a digital copy of a physical photograph which has been damaged by natural, man made, or environmental causes or simply affected by age or neglect.

Digital photograph restoration uses a variety of image editing techniques to remove visible damage and aging effects from digital copies of physical photographs. Raster graphics editors (see list below) are typically used to repair the appearance of the digital images and add to the digital copy of the photo where pieces of the physical photograph are torn or missing. Evidence of dirt, scratches, and other signs of photographic age are removed from the digital image manually, by painting over them meticulously. Unwanted color casts are removed and the image's contrast or sharpening may be altered in an attempt to restore some of the contrast range or detail that is believed to be in the original physical image. In addition image processing techniques such as image enhancement and image restoration are also applicable for the purpose of digital photograph restoration.

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Raster graphics editors

Open-source

Proprietary

Freeware	Artweaver Brush Strokes Image Editor Chasys Draw IES Fatpaint Fresh Paint Fotografix IrfanView Paint.NET PhotoScape Picasa Pixia Windows Photo Gallery XnView

Commercial	ACD Canvas ACDSee Adobe Fireworks Adobe PhotoDeluxe Adobe Photoshop Elements Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adobe Photoshop Affinity Photo Aldus PhotoStyler Aperture Artipic ArtRage Autodesk SketchBook Pro Bibble Barco Creator Brilliance Clip Studio Paint CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro Color It! Corel Painter Essentials Corel Painter Corel Photo-Paint cosmigo Pro Motion Dazzle Draw Deluxe Paint Deluxe Paint Animation Erdas Imagine GraphicConverter HDR PhotoStudio Helicon Filter Kid Pix KoalaPainter LView Pro MacPaint Macromedia xRes Microsoft Digital Image Naked light NEOchrome NeoPaint OCP Art Studio OpenCanvas PC Paintbrush PCPaint PaintShop Pro Paint Tool SAI Photo Mechanic Photo Raster PhotoFinish Photogenics PhotoImpression PhotoLine Photon Paint PhotoPerfect PicMaster Picnik PixBuilder Photo Editor Pixelmator PMview Portrait Professional Project Dogwaffle QFX Quantel Paintbox RealWorld Photos Rebelle Serif PhotoPlus SilverFast HDR SuperPaint Ulead PhotoImpact Ultimate Paint Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Zoner Photo Studio

Bundled	Ability Photopaint Microsoft Photo Editor Microsoft Office Picture Manager Microsoft Paint

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Comparison

Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage

Specialties	Archaeology Antiques restoration Bioarchaeology Building restoration Conservation science (cultural heritage) Database preservation Heritage science Digital preservation Digital photograph restoration Film preservation Frame conservation Historic preservation Media preservation Object conservation Painting conservation Preservation (library and archival science) Sustainable preservation Web archiving

Conservation-restoration techniques	Aging (artwork) Anastylosis Arrested decay Archaeological sites Architecture Automobiles Bone, horn, and antler objects Books, manuscripts, documents and ephemera Ceramic objects Clocks Copper-based objects Feathers Flags and banners Frescos Fur objects Glass objects Historic gardens Human remains Illuminated manuscripts Iron and steel objects Ivory objects Lacquerware Leather objects Lighthouses Metals Musical instruments Neon objects New media art Outdoor artworks Outdoor bronze objects Outdoor murals Paintings Painting frames Parchment Photographs Plastic objects Shipwreck artifacts Silver objects Stained glass Textiles Tibetan thangkas Time-based media art Totem poles Vehicles Vinyl discs Woodblock prints Wooden furniture Cradling (paintings) Detachment of wall paintings Desmet method Fabric restoration Historic paint analysis Inpainting Kintsugi Leafcasting Lining of paintings Mass deacidification Mold prevention Overpainting Paper splitting Radiography of cultural objects Reconstruction (architecture) Textile stabilization Transfer of panel paintings UVC-based preservation

Notable conservation-restoration projects	Conservation issues of Pompeii and Herculaneum Conservation-restoration of Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez Conservation-restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper Conservation-restoration of the Shroud of Turin Conservation-restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty

Care and management	Collecting Collection (artwork) Collections care Collections catalog Collections maintenance Collections management (museum) Collections Management System Collection Management Policy Cultural heritage management Cultural resources management Deaccessioning (museum) Digital repository audit method based on risk assessment Display case Documentation of cultural property Emergency response (museum) Exhibition of cultural heritage objects Found in collection Inherent vice Inventory (museum) Museum integrated pest management Optical media preservation Preservation survey Preservation metadata Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Preservation of meaning Provenance Repatriation Restoration (cultural heritage) Storage of cultural heritage objects

Collections care roles	Art handler Collection manager Conservation scientist Conservator-restorer Conservation technician Curator Exhibition designer Mount maker Objects conservator Paintings conservator Photograph conservator Preservationist Registrar (museum) Textile conservator

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