photo of a photo

[marggg]

My sister sent me a photo of a very old photo. She doesn't have the original. In photoshop there are lines and patterns. They became worse when I applied the Dust and Scratches filter. Will the FFT filter help in this case, or ...?

[secretagents]

Yes it will.

[mistermonday]

In my opinion you will do just as well or better with a good noise filter like Noiseware or one of the filters in Photoshop than you will with an FFT filter (example attached). FYI, the image you uploaded was saved on jpg 3so you have very significantly degraded it as noted by all of the artifacts. Hopefully you have a much higher resolution photo.
Regards, Murray

[marggg]

The uploaded image is a small section of the whole. The orig photo was taken about a hundred years ago and it was copied at some point. We no longer have the orig and we don't know how the copy was made but assume it was with a camera, and then printed. My sister scanned the copy as a jpeg and emailed it to me so I can't avoid the degradation with this one.

I did try the FFT filter multiple times and it does improve the image each time, to my surprise.

Thanks for the info. I'll post something after I make more progress.

[cebe]

Hi, the parallel lines are very strange for such an old photo, it looks like a belinograph one !
What i have done, quickly I confess, is 1. enhance the contrast and 2. apply a gaussian blur for a more realistic rendering of an old grained photo. The result must be adjusted for the whole image, with a sepia tone as a final touch. Hope it helps.

[Gordie]

Not great, but its my effort none the less

[aartist]

Gordie, I like your rendering.
Blurred/Sharpened, then added back some noise.

[Kraellin]

try FFT in Image Analyzer. it's easier to use and does a good job. it's a free program from MeeSoft.

[Kraellin]

i did some work on this and yes, i used image analyzer's fft filter, plus a lot of other stuff.

[MiningArt]

There is a little info in there.

[0lBaldy]

My shot at the photo of a photo

Edit- Forgot to add, I also did a levels using the black and white points ..

[secretagents]

FFT in Gimp followed by KPT Equalizer and Ximagic Denoiser plus a bit of levels adjustment

[jesterjeni]

I used noiseware and photoshop elements, blur, denoise, healing brush and burn tool. this is what i came up with

[Flora]

To minimize the lines, I used Gaussian Blur + Neat Image + Dust&Scratches.

My results after each of these procedures in Attachment 1.

I didn't bother much about the background, but playing a bit more with it I got to Attachment 2.

With this picture I first used Neat Image on the whole image then on Shadow and Luminosity Masks separately. This Tutorial explains how to do it.

[mepaulus]

Originally Posted by 0lBaldy

My shot at the photo of a photo

Edit- Forgot to add, I also did a levels using the black and white points ..

Amazing result there 0lBaldy , nice show of workflow too

[aartist]

Flora has my vote. She nailed it!

[jesterjeni]

that is awsome, nice work!

[Flora]

aartist, jesterjeni,

Thank you!

[0lBaldy]

Flora, you always amaze! Great work!

[Flora]

Thank you 0lBaldy!!!