Summary: This blog post shares how you can fix color, brightness, and other noise in your damaged pictures in Photoshop. It also outlines a specialized photo repair software to fix severe corruption in pictures of any format.
Your yearning to shoot pitch-perfect photos may go unfulfilled due to a shortfall in the camera’s imaging calibre or other technicalities of the craft. Probably, your camera settings were not up to mark or there wasn’t sufficient lighting at the time of shoot. Due to these reasons, photos may turn out grainy, blurry, dark with strange spots, dull, or have other shortcomings.
Photoshop is a great solution for such issues in photos- it can fix damaged photos and make them look better.
In this blog post, we’ll share the key features of Photoshop that you can use to fix the color, brightness, and other noise in your damaged pictures. We’ll also outline a specialized photo repair software that can fix severe corruption in images including RAW file formats.
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Photoshop can fix damaged and distorted photos. The raster graphics editor reduces color and luminance noise along with correcting other flaws such as red eye, blemishes, spots, etc. in the photos.
Use the below methods in the latest Photoshop CC, CS6, CS5, and lower versions.
What you can fix: Spots, grains, dots of red, green, and blue, color fringing, halos, shadows, pixelation, luminance noise (black, white, and grey dots), banding etc. in photos
Colored artifacts or distortion in your photos mostly occur due to wrong camera or light settings. Noise filters in Photoshop are the best way to remove such color issues in the images.
Photoshop offers two mode to reduce noise in the pictures – basic and advanced. If you don’t get satisfactory results in the basic mode, try the advanced version.
| Note: Some Photoshop filters that you can use to reduce various types of noise in photos – Despeckle, Dust & Scratches, Reduce Noise, Sharpen, and Sharpen Edges. |
What you can fix: Luminance noise – brightness issues, black, white, and grey dots in the photo
Luminance noise affects the brightness in the photos. It occurs due to inappropriate light and ISO settings during the shoot.
What you can fix: The old damaged photos, blemishes, spots, red eye, etc.
Photoshop offers a variety of retouch and repair tools to improve and enhance the damaged photos. You can easily fix imperfections such as red eye, spots, blemishes, scratches, etc. in your pictures. The retouch and repair tools are boon for photographers who need to repair their client’s old damaged photos.
Some of the efficient Photoshop retouch and repair tools are Clone Stamp tool, Healing Brush tool, Spot Healing Brush tool, The Patch tool, Red Eye tool.
The Clone Stamp tool lets you to copy one area of an image over another of the same image, which has the same color mode.
The Healing Brush tool fixes imperfections. You paint with the sampled pixels from an image or pattern like in Clone Stamp. Additionally, the Healing Brush matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels you are going to repair.
The Spot Healing Brush removes spots, blemishes, circles, and anomalies in your photos. It is similar to the Healing Brush but doesn’t require you to specify a sample spot. It automatically samples from around the retouched area.
The Patch tool repairs a selected area with pixels from another area or a pattern. It matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels.
The Red Eye tool removes the common red eye issue in your photos.
Note: You can visit helpx.adobe.com to know in detail how each can be used to repair your damaged pictures.
What you can fix: Repair corrupt and damaged photos including grainy, blurry, broken, pixelated, with grey bands, or giving errors. Fix issues like corrupt headers, JPEG file data, invalid JPEG file structure, etc.
Stellar Repair for Photo provides a fast and easy way to repair corrupt, broken, or damaged photos. The best thing about this photo repair tool is that it can repair RAW file formats of all popular camera brands like Nikon, Canon, Sony, Fuji, Olympus etc. Unlike Photoshop, the software can repair multiple photos at a time. You don’t need to juggle with the functions or settings to get the desired results.
Sumona is a tech blogger, avid photographer, & technogeek with vast experience in writing about media file recovery tips and tutorials. She has over 10 years of experience in media file recovery/media file repair technology. She is passionate about Photography, Creative Designing, Music, and Exploring lesser-known destinations.
I have got a few inquiries from my clients asking about how to actually repair corrupted files.
I can now send them over to your article to purchase the software as when they damage their files, they usually damage the whole batch!
I will certainly bookmark your article as I am sure at some point I will need your software to fix corrupted photo files of my own.
Thanks for the post!
Hi Chris, Thanks for reading our article and I am sure our software will repair your corrupted photos files!
Hi, I had couple of photos have a brightness issues and I try to fix in Photoshop. I forget how to fix in Photoshop after read the steps the issue will resolved. Thank you very much!
Hi Michael, Thanks for reading our blog and sharing your valuable feedback with us!
Hi Sumona, Thanks for the input and sharing informative information about Photoshop. I will have to try this.
Hi Lepel, Thanks for your words!
Hi, Thanks for provide the ways to fix damaged photos and clearing that the pixel stuff in Photoshop. I understand it much better now
Hi Mike, Thanks for your words!
Hi Sumona, My Grandmother photos is very damaged, it has been in a frame for years, it is actually a copy of copy the original.. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Drew, We would like to inform you that our software works on “what you see is what you can repair”. That means the files will be repaired in the same manner as you were able to see them in the preview window after the scanning is complete.
It’s good to know the ways to repair corrupt pictures and I used your software to fix couple of my holiday pics. I really appreciate it!
Hi Tom, Thanks for your appreciation!
Very nice and Clear Guide! I had just started learning Photoshop and having some problem on picture you are provides the best ways to fix damaged photos. Thank you very much!
Glad you found it helpful, Philip! More is on the way!
This blog help me a lot! When I try to open a photo in Photoshop elements it’s showing me error message” Could not complete the request because of a problem parsing jpeg data”. These methods is helpful to fix this problem. Thanks you very much!
Hi Nil, Thanks for your words!