I began programming microcomputers in 1981 and developed a number of vertical applications in the 1980s. I took up desktop publishing in 1991. In 1997 I began researching the genealogy of my family and shortly afterward purchased a flatbed scanner in order to digitize the many old photographs of ancestors that were coming into my possession.Of these three technologies, the one that is at the same time the most fun and the most challenging is that of digital photograph editing. In my opinion, there are few thrills that can compare with seeing an old photo, possibly faded, color-shifted, badly exposed, blurred with age, distorted, damaged with spots and creases, or some combination of these, “come to life” and look like a picture that was taken last week.