Photoshop - touching up

Today, I had a go at getting rid of some of the imperfections on this old photograph below on photoshop. 

First, I straightened up the actual image by using the ruler. I dragged a line across the top of the edge of the photo and then clicked image and image rotation and then selected arbitrary. The angle was already set to 3.12 which made the image straight.

To get rid of the little white ripped bit at the top right of the image, I used the lasso tool to roughly draw around it, move the selection just slightly above, clicked the move tool and duplicated it down by holding down the 'alt' key and dragging over where the rip was. 

With the other rip on the top left hand side, i used the lasso tool again to make a selection around it, then clicked edit, then fill and then selected content-aware on the drop down menu. 

To get rid of the coffee stains on the right hand side of the photo, I used the spot healing brush tool.

To get rid of the numbers and the white lines at the bottom of the photo, i used the clone stand tool. To get a sample from the surrounding grass, you press 'alt' and click and then stamp it over where you want to by just clicking. You have to keep sampling to make it as accurate as possible. When doing the white lines at the bottom, zooming right in was required as the lines go over the boy's shoes so you have to get nice and close.

This was the finished image. It's not the best as I did it quite quickly but it demonstrates what I did!