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The other day I was visiting my sister. I knew she had a lot of my family’s old photos and I wanted to sort through them. I guess you could say that I am our family’s official historian and genealogist. Because of that, my goal was (and still is) to digitize as many of the older photographs as possible. Of course, as you likely know yourself, time isn’t always kind to old photos, and that was very apparent as I flipped through album after album. Many of the photos I discovered were in decent shape but some, like a number of the old Polaroids, definitely didn’t age well.

Many of the methods I experimented with are the SAME ones I use to turn some of my “average” digital photos into stunning masterpieces, like the “before and after” photo below taken in Gettysburg, PA.

I’ve found, after years of working with photos of all types, that the software tools you use can make or break your end results. The great news is that there are quite a few excellent “digital darkroom” options available to us today! So I flipped through my family albums once more, picked out NEW photos in desperate need of restoring and used them to test five of the top and most commonly used Photo Editing programs available today. My goal was to see how well each one could handle the job of restoring my family photos. I ALSO chose one of my favorite digital images to test as well.