Hi Leo,

Thanks for your email.  As a photographer using Photoshop you're probably
already aware of the basic techniques I used to "restore" images.  There
are many archaeologists, however, that probably are not so the course I
offer really is pretty basic.  With that being said I found Katrin
Eismann's book PhotoShop Restoration and Retouching to be very useful.  I
also used http://www.lynda.com/ quite a bit.  I was required to subscribe
to the site for one semester of graduate school about 2 years ago but I've
also made wide use of their free online tutorials as well.  If you haven't
already try searching around the Adobe website for tutorials as well. 
They often have video's demonstrating the changes from one version to
another that I learn a lot from.

Those are some of the items that come to mind immediately.  I hope to add
a page to the MUA's website on photo editing tips as well in the future so
keep checking back over the next few months.

Good luck and I hope that helps.

best regards,

Kurt

> Hello Kurt- thanks for the information about the uses of photoshop for
> archaeology.  As a photographer I use it every day, but hadn't really
> thought about its utility in this context.  The documentation you've
> provided has been very useful and I'd like to learn more, however I'm
> unsure whether I'll be able to attend the SHA meeting.  Are there any
> other references or resources you can suggest to check out?  Anything
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo Demski
>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:09:38 -0800
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: From the MUA - Examples of Digital Image Restoration.
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Folks:
>>
>> Last week we featured a post on digital images and drawings.  For those
>> of
>> you who are interested the MUA is conducting a Photoshop workshop at
>> this
>> year’s Society for Historical Archaeology conference in Austin, Texas.
>> The workshop covers basic image restoration for historic, underwater,
>> and,
>> new this year, archival materials.  You can see examples of before and
>> after images here:
>>
>> http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/workshop/psws.shtml
>>
>> Also, just in time for the holidays, we have a new selection of (I think
>> the best way to describe them is “colorful”) MUA shirts.
>>
>> http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/donations/shirts.shtml
>>
>> Thanks for supporting the MUA (a 501c3 non profit organization) and its
>> mission to help underwater archaeologists in their public outreach
>> efforts.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> T. Kurt Knoerl
>> Director
>> The MUA
>> http://www.themua.org
>