Repairing an old photo

An uncle of mine asked me yesterday to repair an old family photo of my grandparents - I am the 'go to' person in the family for photography problems. I now have a qualification in the service they require - a City&Guilds level 2 award in digital image manipulation - distinction . It was not a particularly difficult job - I only had to use one Photoshop Elements 9 tool - the  spot healing brush. Then I sent the photo to be printed by Photobox - they are the best printing service on the Internet.

Other things I have been asked to do include dealing with red eye or white eye flash problems. Again this is not difficult - you change the background to black, zoom in and use the eraser tool.

I think the biggest job I had to do was of my baby twin nephew and niece - I had two photos - one was smiling in one and the other was smiling in the other so I had to remove the head of one twin and place it on top in the other photo. I used selection tools and copy then paste.