The inspiration for this restoration was to bring back a photo from my childhood to its former glory. Since this was not a photo of a photo but I scanned this in a home, the original photo was taken with one of those disposable film cameras that everyone had back in the 1990s and early to mid 2000s including my mother who has a collection of these including those that still need the film to be developed. To describe the original photo, it was dark with my seven year old self standing out with some scratches, folds, and some aging for a 13 year old photo. In the restoration phase in Photoshop, I bring the scanned photo in and copied it into another layer so that I did not lose any pixels of the original and cropped them the best I could. Next, I used the healing tool to fix up the scratches, aging spots, and folds to reveal its original glory. Afterwards, I copied the layer with the spot healing and used the dodge and burn tools to bring more life to the photo to touch up on the shadows and highlights of the original photo. Lastly, I took the red eye tool to fix my eyes as with photos with people that had used flash photography, it has the tenancy to create red eye. The original photo was taken in March 2005 at the Living Seas pavilion at Epcot at Walt Disney World where I was on the escalator. Some compositional elements include the pattern on the escalator and leading lines from the railing with the overhead light in the background with seven year old me smack dab in the middle with a couple lose baby teeth. Oddly enough, the highlights and shadows of myself as well as the leading lines of the escalator are the strongest in the restoration because I was able to fix red eye, scratches, spots, etc. as the original photo was manageable enough to restore properly. The weakest part of both the original and the restored versions is some of the finger prints I could not for he life of me remove but it is only the aesthetics where some of the details of the escalator was confused for scratches. However, I learned how to restore an old photo of mine but had given the chance to fix it up a bit more was to adjust the brightness, contrast, exposure, etc to further reveal the original photo in high quality resolution from 2005 to 2018.