Lovin' Those Old Family Photos Again - Part 1

Yesterday, I was thumbing through our old family photos.  I mean really old.  Remembering my father who passed away in 1980 at the young age of 55, and reflecting on my family history.  I wanted to preserve these memories and maybe see if I could restore some of these photos to their original glory.  I ran upstairs with my laptop and a box full of old family photos and spent a few hours scanning them into my computer.  That's the first thing you have to do before you restore anything, is scan the old pictures into your computer.  Just place them face down on your printer/scanner and start scanning away. 

Next, open those wonderful pictures up in Photoshop.  I use Photoshop CS3 and honestly, I don't know if this tutorial will work in Photoshop Elements because I am not familiar with it, but you can always try.  Let's take a look at an old photo I found of my mother, father, and older brother, Mike,

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