Fave actions/textures for old/bad photos?
 

What are you favorite actions/textures to use on old photos where the quality isn't that great? Also what about those more current photos that are maybe a little blurry or just not 'right'? I use PSE 6 and am quite the newbie to this but i have lots of pics I'd like to use for the challenges but they're just not 'quite right'. Thanks, Kim

Nothing fixes blurry. Ever. You can sharpen the bajeezus out of it in an attempt to fix it, but you end up doing more damage than it's worth. I don't use bad photo's, and I've gotten better at deleting them. Yes, there are a handful that I keep because I really WISH I had gotten it right, but otherwise they get deleted.

I don't fix old photos. They are what they are, they capture the moment/time, and that's that. Sometimes I'll convert to black and white or sepia, and that can help it out, but otherwise I don't mess with them.

I have more new and awesome photos than I know what to do with, I don't waste my time with bad photos, or old bad photos.

Thanks Colleen that's good advice :)

Anytime! I was worried I sounded too harsh, lol.

I dont care if the quality is bad if it is a photo of an important event like a birthday or something. I just do the best I can with what I have and sometimes I dont get any great photos of those really important days. The best thing I have found for those not-so-great photos is to either convert it to b/w or to try cropping it to make it more interesting.

I have a lot of slightly off pictures, some I caught while laughing at my daughter's shinanigans (sp?). But a lot of time I can't bring myself to delete them because the memories are more important to me than the "perfection" of the shot.

In those cases, I convert it to black and white, and maybe add a soft blur to it. It makes it look more "on purpose" than it just being a blurry shot, you know?

Example - I loved these photos of my daughters hands holding my dads thumb when she was just days old. But the lighting was bad (nightime & indoors), so they turned out like crap. I just played with them until I had them looking decent, and used them anyways.

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com...Exchange-_.jpg

I agree with Jessica, sometimes the photos suck, but it is an event I want to scrap or a memory that I am happy to at least have a photo of. I usually make the photo fairly small on the page, and then add in lots of journaling or do a more white space page. A bad photo looks a little better small IMO. Making them black and white can help to.

These photos are super blurry, but the b&w makes them look better -

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com...tyinmotion.jpg

Wow thanks for the great tips ladies - keep 'em coming and I love the examples too!