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12. Clicking on Enhance and Brightness/Contrast and then Lev-
els results in this dialog box showing a histogram for the photo.
higher number. The proper amount of Sharpening is dependent on
the resolution of the image and the original scan. If you increase it
too much, you’ll start to see the pixels seem to glow. For this photo,
the best Amount was about 170%.
For photos you are using for modeling projects, this all you need.
However, I sometimes take one more step for scanned photos I
want to archive. Zoom-in on an image, and you’ll probably see
white spots in the dark areas and black spots in the light areas.
These are most likely due to dust and other contaminates on the
original negative when it was traditionally printed.
Getting rid of these spots is simple using the Clone Tool, which
looks like a rubber stamp. On my version of Photoshop Elements,
it is on the left, two rows up from the bottom [8]. The Clone
tool copies the pixels at a selected location and pastes them to
another location on the image. If those portions of the image
