I have an 8X10 1970 image taken with a kodak camera. The color is bleached out of the photo from being exposed to sunlight for many years, only the edges that were hidden by the frame have retained some color. Is there a way to use iPhoto to restore it?
Probably not - iPhoto is a very basic photo editor you probably need a much more powerful editor like PhotoShop Elements or an editor specifically designed to restore old photos - You can certainly play with the iPhoto editing and see if you can accomplish what you want but I doubt it
LN
Thanks Larry. Is photoshop editor easy to use?
Depends - I do not use it much but find it easy - it has many options and to do what you want to do you probably will need to study it a lot - it is much more capability than iPhoto and is certainly more complicated to use - especially for much more complicated tasks like yours - I believe there are demos and tutorials on the Adobe site
LN
Is there a way to use iPhoto to restore it?
It will depend on how bad the image corruption is.
As Larry said, iPhoto's tools are limited and meant to be used with new photos, not for image restoration.
The bleaching will have done two things - shift the color, because the different pigments will be deteriorated differently. And reduce the saturation.
Open the "Adjust" panel in the "Edit" panel.
If you cannot get the colours right, you might consider to change the photo to "Black&White" by using the B&W Effect. Sometimes older photos will still look great as B&W, if you adjust the contrast.
can iPhoto be used to restore old photos
