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You can restore your old photos easily with image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. After you scan your photos and have them on your computer to manipulate, you can use Elements to remove scratches and specks from the photos. Just follow these steps:
1. Open an image in Elements and select the Rectangular Marquee tool.
Avoid adding more specks to your scanned photo by cleaning the scanner window with an ammonia-based window cleaner before a scan session and dusting your photos with a soft brush or cloth before scanning them.
2. Drag the tool around the area that contains specks or scratches.
3. Choose Filter, Noise, Dust & Scratches.
The Dust & Scratches dialog box appears.
4. Select Preview to preview the changes.
5. Drag the Radius slider all the way to the left to determine the size of the speck or blemish that the software removes.
6. Drag the Threshold slider all the way to the right.
This slider determines how aggressive the filter is applied. If you use too much threshold, large parts of the original image might disappear.
7. Drag the Threshold slider to the left until the lines or specks are removed.
8. Click OK to make the adjustments permanent.
9. Choose File, Save.
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