Restoring 110-year-old glass plate negatives with Photoshop

Saturday 18 December 2021, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 3,490 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Over the coming weeks, we will mostly be staying at home. That's a great time to improve your photography skills with some interesting online courses, or you can, like photographer Mathieu Stern, use Photoshop to restore 110-year-old collodion photos.

Mathieu bought two glass plate negatives from 1910 and digitised them, then used modern technology to give them a fresh lease of life.

He made the great video above about the whole process. It's really interesting to see what he does and how beautiful the end result has become.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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Michael wrote on Saturday 18 December 2021 at 21:26 | reply
Interesting video. Nicely made.
Translated from Dutch.

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