NPR with a great reminder that you should scan and save old decaying photos.
When people send their photos to ScanCafe, the company will put them in digital form and use Photoshop to edit out the flaws. The company’s Wade Lagrone holds up a photo of a customer’s grandfather in Eastern Europe. Judging by his black hat and long side locks, he is Jewish, but it’s hard to see the details of his features because of cracks and fading in the picture. “Just a massive amount of dust and noise and tiny little scratches that make it look as if this photo were taken in a snowstorm,” Lagrone says. Lagrone then shows the same photo after the company’s technicians processed it: It looks great. – from NPR