i am struggling to learn how to manipulate photos and its really hard with out lessons. but i have made a beginning.. i started with photos of pictures from godey's ladies books- its neat to see them cleaned up- i want to continue cleaning the images but am not doing well with that part- is frustrating!!!

here is one i started with.

as you can see i was able to remove the worst of the yellowing from age, brightened and sharpened the focus. the process affected the colors some. and a couple i even removed the color for a b&w image. i wonder if others would enjoy the results.

one thing have not learned how to do is remove age spots, stains or tears. that will come next (I hope).

some of the pages i have are fairly badly damaged. but they are beautiful even so. it would be really cool to see them at their best tho.