Before the days of digital photography everyone’s precious family photos were of course printed on photo paper, which is not the most durable of mediums.

Photo restoration has become a big business today. If you have a knack for navigating your way around an imaging program doing this from your home can be a great way to earn money and even set up a nice little business.

Photoshop is largely the most popular image manipulation software on the market. It is not the easiest program to master, and in order to make money from photo restoration you will need to know your way around it. Fortunately there are a number of good websites that offer detailed step – by-step instructions that can help the amateur who dabbled in the occasional wrinkle removal or color de-saturation become a real Photoshop pro.

Photo restoration usually means taking an old picture and restoring it to its former glory without actually changing the composition of the photo. This is exactly what many are looking for and are willing to pay to have done. Have kids? Then you may have noticed that even school photography companies are offering pre-print retouching these days – for a substantial extra charge of course.

The full Photoshop software is not cheap – it will cost you about $300- so if it is not a program you already own you may want to give it a test drive first .  Adobe offer a free 30 day trial here so you can decide whether or not your skills are up to photo restoration.