Yes, it's a big task alright. The photos are from my 93 year mother's photo albums after her life working in many places abroad with my father. She now has dementia and is in care, and I am making photo books with photos and brief descriptive text for her to look at by herself and with others, to reminisce while she just about can. The first album was focused on her and her family and seems to give her a lot of pleasure. One feels very helpless in the face of dementia and it is nice to find some way to connect with her and bring a smile of recognition. I am going to make other photo books of her life for her to look through, and these can then form a small collection of photos in books for the family as a whole. I am using Vuescan too, and an Epson V800 flatbed. An early decision was what type of restoration I would strive for. I have decided to try to take each photo back as far as possible to its first state. So generally I am not, for example, keeping sepia and faded prints sepia and faded. I am restoring as far as I can. This is a choice and others may do it differently. I'm not using ICE and am doing everything by hand - the healing and clone brushes have become my great friends. I can't imagine getting the same results without Photoshop - and a couple of TopazLabs plugins are helpful. David
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