This may be a post for the Paint Shop Pro forum, but thought I'd try here first.

I'm trying to clean up some old family photos.  Some have light spots caused by glue damage.  Anyone know a way to correct these light spots?  I'm using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI.  I tried to lasso the light areas and adjust the color of the selected areas, but I'm having a hard time with the edges of the damaged areas.  I can't get them right.

I've attached an example of what I'm working with.

If anyone has a suggestion I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
David.

I'm a photoshop user myself, and if I were to touch this lovely old photo up, I would try the burn tool or possibly the clone tool.  Boost up the contrast a bit, too... and maybe even add a little color.  so many possibilities.

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Hmmm...I played around with the burn tool as you suggested (never used it before).  It helped some.  It might be the way to go after I get better at using it.  Not sure that the clone will really help here with the size of the area I'm trying to fix. 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll play around with that some more.

Taking your image I've produced the following image. If the end result is acceptable to you, let me know via site mail and I'll try and retrace the steps involved. I think cropping the image to remove most of the problem areas e.g. grass, brickwork and door, is the easier option.  All depends on what you think is the most important part of the image.

Michael -

Thanks for the attempt, but my problem is that I have 5 or 6 photos with similar damage.  I was hoping to find a way to repair it.  Some of the photos can't be cropped.

**Here's my try...  I used CS2 and the burn tool & the healing tool etc...**

Your image is greyscale. That's good. It makes things easier as you only have one channel.

I suppose PSP also has levels, curves and layers with layer-masks?

Well, first you should make the photographs like it should look like, regardless of the problem area's. Best use curves for this. It's easier to do this from the start, and then begin the rest.

When this is done, and saved, copy it, add a layer with a layer mask and load the copied image as the mask. Because you have a greyscale already, it loads easily as a mask.
Now in the mask, paint everything that is unaffected with black, leaving a safe border around the affected area's.
With levels, force what is left of the mask to high contrast.
Activate your layer itself and drag with curves untill the area's match (or are very close.
Do the details by hand with cloning or a similar tool.

Five or six are fun to do. Five hundred would be a bore.

There are no Borg. All resistance is fertile.

Nongo - Your's came out better than mine.  I tried the burn tool, but my grass didn't look nearly as good as what you came up with.  I'll look at the healing tool.  I've never worked with that before.  Thanks for your advice and effort.  I appreciate it.

Tanchelyn - Thanks for the advice.  I'll try that.  PSP does have layers, so I'll see what I can come up with.

Thanks!