Scanned from old photo with texture...

[uturn]

I got this old photo of grandmother... thing is it's old and the paper used has this texture to it. I'm not sure how I can remove all that pattern without spending hours on it ... sos... help..

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I just started playing with PictureMan 5 Pro... Got all night to figure this one out...

[Duv]

There's often many different ways. Can you post the pic and perhaps we can determine what might work best.
One idea though is to overscan the image 300 to 400% and step the file down via Image>Image Size in 2 to 4 increments. Another is to scan several times and each time rotate the picture.

Dave

[uturn]

OK.. here is the pic... prolly too low quality, but it should give you an idea of what I'm dealing with.. Thank yuou for any suggestions..

[chrishoggy]

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[uturn]

OMG! Thank You!
I went over couple of different tutorials and was getting ready to work on it tonight, but what you've done is the quickest yet. This is great!
Thanx again!

[MBChamberlain]

Since you have access to the original, scan it at a high resolution, turn the picture 180° and scan it again. Then line the second picture directly over the first one and set the top layer to darken. If they are lined up exactly, this will virtually eliminate the texture without losing much of the detail.

Take care,

Michael

[uturn]

NICE! Will try that as well... It's X-Mas and all my family wants their photos fixed... so i'm looking for the quickest way...

[krishna]

Used a software called AstraImage. Its very easy with this s/w to remove such patterns. Used a feature called FFT Edit and masked out all the bright spots.

[Flora]

Like krishna, to remove the texture in this picture, trying not to lose too many details and sharpness, I used FFT which, in my case, is the FFT Plug-in for Phototshop (here).

Roland explained very clearly how to use it here.

After running the FFT filter, I copied and pasted the original picture on top of the grey corrected one and set the blending to Color to go back to the original colour.

I used Curves and Levels to balance lights, shadows and midtones.
I used the Blur Tool to selectively smoothen some areas.
I created a soft vignette to fade the background a bit and make the lady's face 'pop' out more.

[krishna]

That's excellent Flora.The tones are so good in the restored version.

[uturn]

WOW Flora, Thanx. That looks amazing...I'm just like... wow... right now.. nice!

[TokenArt]

since just joined trying my hand at alot of these pics I guess..let me know what you think

TokenArt

[Flora]

krishna, uturn,

Thank you so much for your great comments .... so glad you liked it!!!

TokenArt,

great colouring!!! .... In my opinion, the restoration is a bit 'too' soft/blurred ... and, unless you wanted it that way ... I think too many details have been lost ...

[TokenArt]

well as I said I am VERY new to this..I normally do digital art..not editing pictures so..This is all very new to me...

TokenArt

[uturn]

no worries... my attempt was blur extreme... practice makes perfect. it looks like each task can be done in 10 different ways, so it takes some time to perfect it...