Wow, I finally got the request of my choice to answer. Thank You!

Let me start by saying that the picture that you are worried about and want to restore can be that of your parents when they got married, or your grand parents, or a picture of yours’ when you were a cute baby (and you still love your baby- face), or it can be of your beloved pet (who knows).

I would personally advice people “NEVER attempt to retouch or try to repair the original PHOTO”. Two Reasons:

2. Open the scanned and saved file in Photoshop.

3. Use Dust & Scratch Filter to remove the marks, scratches and blots in the photo. “Dust & Scratches” can be located at: Filter – Noise – Dust & Scratches.

4. Once you select “Dust& Scratches” from “Noise” submenu of “Filter”, a window will pop up with two control sliders. The first slider is for the Radius and the other one is for Threshold. There is another window if the preview box is checked.

5. Adjusting the Radius slider will remove the scratches. But be careful or it may make the edges blurred. If, in case, that happens then adjust the Threshold slider. This will allow the blur to go back and will make the picture clearer with the scratches disappearing. You should be very-very careful while doing this.

6. In order to remove any mark from the photo select only the part where the mark or scratch is located. Use the Lasso Tool for this purpose. Lasso Tool is present in the second row of the first column of Tool.

7. You can feather the edges of the selected area. One can do this by clicking the Feather option and click the Scratch and Dust Filter again and repeating step-5 (above)

8. If there are still visible marks on the other parts of the photo then repeat steps – 3, 4 and 5.

10. One can also adjust the colour, contrast and brightness to make it look better.

Cheers!!! You have finally done it.

1. Why not use technology? Store softcopies of your precious photos in storages devices. Make sure you have a back-up.

2. If you still prefer to use the old traditional Photo Albums, make sure it is the best one available in the market and that it is less likely to destroy your valuable photos.

3. Do you know you can also store your photos online? Yes, use it. Store your photos on online photo albums. This has got several advantages and I don't think I need to explain these advantages when you can read this article. Correct?

I am done. Cheers!!!

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