Restoring old faded cracked and yellowed photos

I have a bunch of old pics I want to restore. I was going to just use photoshop or something similar but there are tons of them and I need a way to get it done quicker. I hear epson has very good auto restore software that comes with their scanners. I think iphoto might be to under powered for the job as some are very yellowed with time and cracked, etc...
Anyone have any ideas short of photoshop to get them done quickly and easily?

I've had fair success using iPhoto to fix some old photos, Especially the ones that have changed color due to bad processing. I've used the adjustments, especially the saturation, tint and temperature sliders and the retouch feature. I use Photoshop if this doesn't work. I've been scanning photos and tin types from the 1800s and have been able to improve them significantly, but it isn't fast. I have an HP scanner but have never used its edit functions. I just tried it and didn't find the options to be as good as iPhoto, as it is much harder to see the preview.

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Hi,
I had major folder problems with my system HD that were pretty much irrepairable with anything else other than Disk Warrior. After repairing directories with DW, my system HD didn't have a recognisable version of 10.4 on it. So I went ahead and carried out an 'archive and install' installation of a fresh copy of 10.4. I've reloaded my old Safari bookmarks no problem, but I'm having problems with my old keychain accounts and passwords. In my 'Previous Systems' folder after the archive and install, I went to ~/Library/keychains and couldn't find anything in there to throw into my new keychains folder... am I looking for the right file? Does the com.apple.keychainaccess.plist file in my home help at all? I tried using the keychain first aid on the keychain access .app but it was no help.
Please can you help? I have a rather large keychain list that I really really don't want to lose!

For those who are referring to this thread for the reason of the OP (Restore after Archive and Install), the keychain file that you want for Safari bookmarks is in your User file, so you need not freak out about not having backed it up. It is there in your Previous folder. You may have to do something tricky with the file permissions, but maybe not.
Here is what I did. I opened the current Users/YourUserName/Library/Keychains and right-clicked the login.keychain and made a copy of it. Then I moved the original to the trash. Then I copied the old login.keychain over from the Previous/Users/YourUserName/Library/Keychains. At some point I had to authenticate the action (moving the default login.keychain to the trash?).
This is such a relief to not have to re-enter all of my u/p's all over the place. I'd changed several of them since my last backup, so it's inspiration to backup more often.
For the record, restoring after an archive and install, mostly consists of dragging files from one folder to a similarly named folder in the new user folder. Sometimes there are subfolders or files that can not be overwritten (like this one), where you want to backup, delete, and copy, and sometimes you'll just want to let it keep the new one. Sometimes it is a new folder and you can just drag the folder to the new position as well. I haven't even gotten into the depths of working out all the kinks, but I'm impressed with how much has been recovered so far given that I thought I had to start over at one point. I'm going to get everything freshly backed up before re-installing 10.6.2--not to worry!
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How do i get back my old iTunes settings and music, photos ect.

I backed up my iPhone in iTunes on my macbook air then applied the iOs 7.1.1 new update, I accidentally then backed it up again so the back up on my phone is the restarted version with no settings and all my music, photos ext have gone how do I get it back? and apply the old settings onto my phone, the back up was linked to my itunes back up and not icloud.

SRP11 wrote:
... You learn something new everyday!
However... if there are no other Backups... Re-Syncing Content is required.
See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
From Here > http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/syncing/

Restoring Old User Info and programs

Hi, I just got my macbook back from repair and the harddrive is wiped clean...had to start over with new user name and registration.
Before I sent it away (again), I backed up my user profile on a firewire drive.
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Can I still install and use all my new programs saved in old User?
What do I need to be careful of?
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Fritz,
All the info you need is contained in this kbase article, but there is one item from this article that is somewhat out of date....
When you get to the section of the article that describes the 2 commands to use in Terminal, use this single one instead:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R username:username /Users/username</pre>
In the above command, you will replace all instances of "username" with your own short name. So, if your short name is "fred," for example, you will type the following exactly:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R fred:fred /Users/fred</pre>
Otherwise, follow all the directions for "manually" restoring your HOME folder.
Keep in mind that this will not reinstall applications that you had installed before. It will, however, restore all of the settings and data for those applications. Once you have reinstalled the applications, themselves, you will be right back where you were.
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While upgrading to ios7 I think I restored to factory settings and my photos are lost how can I get them again? They weren't all backed up

Hi, I was upgrading my phone to 7 and I think I reset settings to factory which I have lost all my photos and my notes. I hadn't backed up for a while so I can't get these off my computer. Please let me know if there is something I can do to get the photos back? I didn't delete them.

You may not be able to get them back. I had that problem as well but I had backup. Unfortunately, my backup was corrupted so I was not able to transfer the backup data to my iPhone. Practically all the data on your phone is erased after resetting so if you don't have backup, you can't get the stuff back.

HT1212 will restoring my device erase all my photos?

i forgot my ipads passcode and i know it needs to restore itself but i just want to know this

Yes it will. When you restore it will totally erase the device. But if you backup, as recommended, you can restore from the backup and the photos in the camera roll will be restored. If you don't backup, and you haven't imported the photos to your computer, then the photos are gone.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

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Sorry Raj,
If you did not back up your information, and you have now restored your phone, then your information is not recoverable.
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GB

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Restoring old photos using E9

Is it posible to restore an old photo that has been partly sun bleeched using Elements 9?
Any tips would be very welcome.

This was good practice for me -- I never was any good at colouring black & white photos.
The original photo is a B&W that was hand-coloured. You can tell by looking at the photo left arm and the photo left eye for the places where the colour bled into adjacent areas. Also, there is red remaining in the cheeks, even though the rest of the face is bleached out. This suggests that a retoucher used very finely powdered rouge to colour the cheeks, and those solid particles would not bleach as much as the dyes used for the other colours.
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Besides the practice with using the Color Replacement brush, I learned that using the Smudge and Blur tools on a layer mask is a great way to soften the edges of that mask.
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I had an iPod touch, but it was stolen or lost. Now that I have a new one with a new Apple ID, is there someway I can access and download all my old photos and data from my old Apple ID to my new device? I still remember my old Apple ID and password.

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Cannot open any photos/movies in Entourage, message comes up saying 'folder cannot be found'. Last week I deleted lots of old documents/downlods and fear that I have accidentally deleted file that opens photos/movies.....any suggestions???

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Restoring Old Photos - Actions

I have Photoshop's CS5 on a Mac. Colin Smith has a very nice video on restoring old photos with Channels and then using Content Aware Fill with the Spot Healing Brush.
I have about 140 scanned old photos which I want to improve before putting them in a PhotoBook. Can anyone give me the step by step Actions, with stops
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restoring old photos isnt as hard as it seems you will be using mostly the image>adjustment comands when i usually edit i start off with adjusting the levels then i move on to the curves which adjusts your image so different sections are light and others are dark the next think i would do is move on to the hue and saturation this often seems overextreme as you dont what to turn a normal looking photo purple but adding a very slight change can often make a big difference. as an extra affect the photo filter can sometimes add alot to the photo. i often add a slight sepia tinge to my photos which makes them look very cool and vintagy.
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