Hello all,

I am a keen (very) amateur photographer. I have been playing with an idea for my mother and father's birthday gifts this year. I have decided to make up a coffee table book (from Blurb.com) for them with all of their old pics of my brother and I. I am calling it "Two Little Boys" - despite us being in our 30's!!

Of course, now I have the challenge of restoring all of the scans of 110 and polaroid shots.

I have ordered 'Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching' by Katrin Eismann to help me in this endeavor... but I am thrilled to have found an online forum that deals with this too.

I am looking forward to picking your brains!

Sounds like a project that will be fun (and work) for you and a gift to be treasured by your parents forever. Hopefully, many of the photos will only need a little work, and give you time to work any require more time and effort.

Since it's a beautiful warm sunny day today in the Valley of the Sun, I hope you get out to enjoy it and work on your photos afterwards. ;)

I think you'll find plenty of helpful info and folks here at RetouchPro, and Welcome to RetouchPro!

Welcome, uk2! To help with your project (I feel for you) you might consider getting Ctein's book on digital restoration to supplement Eismann. He provides a lot of instruction on scanning for restoration purposes. I just finished reading Ctein and am inspired to try re-scanning photos I did years ago to see if they can be improved. Also have to discipline myself to avoid the painting-the-Golden-Gate Bridge syndrome (getting to the end of a project and starting it all over again). :) It's good you have a deadline!

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