I spent my afternoon

learning some basic photo restoration.
(Adobe PhotoShop Elements 7.0)

Here are the results.

My maternal grandfather and grandmother,

Merle and Edna, on their wedding day,

November 24, 1916.

Discolored sepia-tone photo - before and after:

My sister, Pam, and me.

This is probably the first day of school in 1960.

Faded black and white, before and after:

My sister, jan, as an infant.

Original photo had the bumpy texture

so popular for photos in the 1950s & 1960s.

There is an obvious overall pattern in the scanned photo,

before and after:

My sister, jan, 1977.

Photo with color shift from aging, before and after: