Photo Healing

I don't usually spend my editing hours doing fix-up on old photographs. Most of what I do is called "post processing" (or the edits after a photoshoot to get the lighting/colors just right). However, this past week my mother called me up with a request. She had stumbled upon a beautiful, yet old and beaten, photograph of her own mother and was wondering if I could "fix it"? Well, there's only one way to find out! I opened the high resolution scan of my grandmother in Photoshop and got to work. I used the healing brush mostly, and also evened out the scratches on her skin using the MCP actions tool "magic skin." I'm very happy with the outcome... and I feel like my comfortability with Photoshop is increasing!