Advanced Photo Restoration with Suzette Allen

Suzette Allen is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE instructors and highly enjoyed this class.

I have really learned a lot from Suzette’s instruction. Photo restoration requires a lot of skill sets in Photoshop. This class is not for a beginner- the title says "Advanced." Watch Ben Willmore courses first, when you understand his retouching, then watch Suzette's course. Most videos of YouTube, teaches the same basics, over and over again. It is hard to find advanced photo retouching classes that are spot on. Suzette gave instruction on how to fix things that I have come across in my family photos and business. True she did not work a complete photo, but she showed how to fix hard or unique problems in photo restoration. I loved the Dust and scratches fix on Grandmother-WOW!. This can be used on most old photos. Yes, I had to do some more research to get the hang of it, but now I have made my own action for it. Wish I had known about this years ago. Plus she showed how to fix other problems in the Grandmother photo. I watched the Action classes of Ben Willmore and Dave Cross. There are Actions in the classes of Blake and Kristna, I recommend Actions for everyone. Actions are easier to learn than some other things in PS, Just need to watch a course on it. Each instructor teaches different Actions, so you should find something that will help you. – Now back to Suzette. If Suzette had fixed a complete picture, I would not have learned as much. I was needing everything she taught & better techniques. I hope CreativeLive has her do another advanced photo restoration class of things that were not covered in this class. Her skills in Photoshop & restoration, should motivate people to learn more about Photoshop through other classes here at CreativeLive. Then come back and watch her class again. If you do not understand the technique she is demonstrating, you need more foundation work in that area. …Example- her demonstrating “Dust and Scratches removal” motivated me to learning Actions- now I am using some type of Action in most photos I work on. Thank you. Thank you.

Learned lots of new tricks and techniques. Sometimes the instructor went too fast for some of the Photoshop steps that she did.

I won't say its good or not good its mediocre.. she just isn't a good instructor not her forte... however being that I am seasoned I figured out what to do with other videos but I would not rely on her video for what you need in restoration

This is a great course for someone interested in offering a photo restoration service, perhaps as a business opportunity. However, it does require an above average skill level in using Photoshop. I would strongly recommend Ben Willmore's course also offered here on CreativeLive first as a prerequisite before taking this course. Also, in the course, Suzette recommends a free color guide for faces, that can be obtained from her website, but I have tried and cannot find it at all. It would have been great if it was provided as course material for subscribers to this course! Anyone knowing where we can download the file she quotes: "ColorGuideFaces.jpg", please let us know.

In the recommendations thumbs up thumbs down there is no middle ground I would give it a thumbs sideways. The instructor jumps around way too much, she never starts and works an image all the way through, she was way to fast rushing the process. I have taken quite a few Creative Live courses this one ranks very low in value.

Love Suzette's teaching style and she was very thorough in her explanations of each thing she does. I also bough Matt's restoration class, this one by far has more information although his was great also. Would like to see Suzette back on creative live again :)

Very informative and she used creative solutions. It's nice to own the course to be able to review it at a slower pace.

I guess I needed Restoration 101 because this was way over my head. Suzette is so good she flies through the techniques very quickly. I bought the class so I can watch it over (and over). She jumped over a lot of steps thinking that we know "the basics" so, I may need to write down her terms and watch Adobe instructional videos to get the whole process for a particular function. The best part is now that I know what is possible, I can keep trying until I figure it out.

She goes very fast and it is hard to follow. Good thing I bought the class so I can watch it over and over.

This class is definitely intended for those with good photoshop knowledge. It is definitely not a beginners course. I have some photoshop experience but found this to be challenging to follow along as some aspects were very new to me. I will have to watch over and over inorder to reap full benefits of this course. I would have like to see this in a version longer than 1.5 hours as I need way more information and instruction to catch up to where I need to be. It seemed that some audience members found themselves over their heads as well.

I have only been able to view half of her video, but it takes off right from where my two school classes of PS left off. It answers a lot of the questions that I had of what else could be done. I wonder if the writer of PS actually knew to what extent that it could be used. Amazing. Thank you Suzette.

Wonderful tips that stretch beyond the obvious clone and heal tools, including a wonderful method of using adjustment layers and the history tool to edit non-destructively. Addresses many of the common problems we face when restoring damaged photos including paper texture and crazing, stains, color and contrast spot problems, and more. She moves fast, and fits a whole lot into a tiny workshop! Definitely worth the purchase price so you can go back and learn each technique at your own speed. I highly recommend it.

Absolutely, utterly indispensable advanced tips and tricks for cloning, removing stains, putting torn imaged back together and building parts of images that barely exist. I can't wait to use these skills with my fine art and conceptual shoots that require a lot of compositing and building from scratch! Also check out Suzette's class on using Warping. It will change your life! (or at least your workflow).

Fantastic class! Suzette's knowledge and expertise helped to bring some excitement back to a project that is long overdue. My family will definitely appreciate all that I've learned to save our photo memories. Thanks Suzette!!!

Amazing! Suzette shows you techniques that are SO much simpler than you have used in the past to remove spots, cracks, and tears. Faster, more effective, and BETTER end results! The technique to colorize an old B&W photo was fabulous! I used to do handpainting black & whites by hand. With the skills Suzette shows you, you can now do this beautifully and easily in Photoshop. She uses restoration examples in this class, but the skills could be used with any new photos, as well. Thank you, Suzette!