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Genealogy Photo Editing, Care and Repair
Rating: 4.1 out of 5(26 ratings)
267 students

Genealogy Photo Editing, Care and Repair

Photo & Document Preservation, Repair, Scanning & Editing: Edit Your Old Photos and Give Them New Life
Created byMichele Boyer
Last updated 9/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Store photos and documents using the right packaging and storage materials
  • Preserve their photos and documents from the elements
  • Know how to scan photos and documents for the best quality image
  • Save scanned photos and documents to the best formats for their intended use
  • Understand formats, dpi, resolution, and file size
  • Know how to edit and repair the most common types of damage to old photos and documents
  • Turn faded photos into bright black & whites or sepia pictures
  • Repair cracks, stains, and blotches
  • Make a photocopy look almost like a photo

Course content

5 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 31m total length

  • Introduction1:32

    I introduce the topics the course covers and a brief "tour" of the course site and features.

  • L2-Textbook download0:12

    This lecture is simply to download your course textbook, which contains all of the links I reference in the course.

Requirements

  • You will need a computer that can run basic photo editing software
  • You will learn about software (for PC or Mac) and can download freeware or purchase a program after the course starts
  • You will need access to a scanner or camera to make copies of your photos
  • You will need to know how to install an image editing software program, how to save documents and find them when you need them

Description

Genealogy Photo Editing, Care and Repair is a course designed for genealogists who want to learn how to repair or preserve old photos and documents. You'll learn the most common kinds of damage to expect, and how to stop the progression. You'll learn about storage materials, what to use and what can cause further damage. And you'll also learn some easy techniques to repair digital copies of your photos and documents, and make them look like new.

Environment is one of the biggest causes of damage, and you'll learn why the basement or attic is the worst choice for storing your fragile paper items.

Before we can begin repairing and editing your photos or documents, you will need to digitize them. You'll learn how to use a scanner, camera, smartphone or hand-held scanner for digitizing.

Then you'll need some image editing software to repair the damage to your digitized images. We'll review some different software packages, and you'll get links to several. Some are freeware and some paid. You can download the freeware, or demos of the paid versions, and use them for this course.

With these tools you'll be ready to start repairing your photos. There are tutorials to show you how to make different corrections and which tools to use. The course includes several images that you can practice on until you learn to use the editing tools and are confident enough work on your own photos.

As usual, my courses come with a detailed textbook that contains all of the links I refer to, and other downloads that you can use for the exercises or further study.

Sign up above, and I'll see you in class.


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who works with old, fragile documents and photos that have sentimental or monetary value
  • You'll need some sort of scanner or camera to make a working copy of your photo or document
  • You'll need a hundred or more megabytes of disc storage for the digitally scanned documents you'll create
  • You are trying to preserve, scan, repair or edit your photos and documents
  • You want to learn some editing techniques that make your photos look new
  • You want to learn the best scanning settings to use

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