Another reason to love Photoshop

Here’s a color photo my mom shot of me with a couple of Easter chicks, probably around March or April, 1950.

As is the case with most color prints of that vintage, the Kodak dyes have deteriorated badly, giving the image a washed-out brownish cast.

But turned into a digital image with a flatbed scanner and tweaked with Photoshop – mostly just Auto Tone and a little increase in color saturation – and it is restored to its original colors, maybe even a little better than the original.

And, of course, it can be cropped tighter to get rid of the extraneous detail.

Too bad the camera’s optics weren’t good enough to make a tack-sharp image.