Oh darn, I had a really neat virus that I wanted to send you. It would have taken care of many of your problems.
Just kidding
Does your scanner have the option before scan ?
Jodi,
Sorry I took so long to get back to you. Yes, my current scanner can remove moire right after the scanning process. However, I don’t always remember to do this and currently use Ulead PhotoImact 3.0 to do take care of it after the fact. It works *very* well, but I really would like to take the program off of the computer because it’s so old that it doesn’t always work properly with Millennium Edition.
John Corliss
Davee,
Thanks, but I’m a poor hippie. I’m looking for a freeware solution. Guess there isn’t one, because I’ve literally spent hours looking for a freeware moire removal plugin and failed to find one.
John Corliss
John,
Sorry can’t remember the topic thread name but there was a disscussion about moire removal not too long ago. I think it was in one of the Photo Challenge Discussions. Maybe someone will see this, and remember what the topic name was.
Terri,
Wasn’t it Leen that came up with something?
Wendy
Wendy,
That’s exactly who I think was talking about moire removal.
Indeed, it was me. and Chuck came up with a quite nice solution. i printed it out, but ufortunately this is in the studio and I am on the internet at home.
The only funny thing: I discovered moiré in a vertically striped shirt. After removing the moire the stripes were horizontal.
BTW, the customer smiled as he did like his new shirt. 😉
Leen
Here it is:
Moiré
Leen Koper – 02:49pm Apr 9, 2004 Pacific
Today I made a group photo and one of the people involved had a white shirt with blue stripes. Now I have a shirt with orange coloured moiré.
Is there any way to remove this?
Leen
Chuck Snyder – 02:55pm Apr 9, 2004 Pacific (#1 of 22)
Leen, per Scot Kelby’s "The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers":
1. Select the area showing the moire pattern; feather 1 or 2 pixels
2. Do a Layer>New Layer via copy
3. On the new layer, choose the Gaussian blur filter and starting with the slider at the far left, drag it to the right until the moire pattern disappears.
4. Change the blend mode on this blurred layer to Color. Supposedly, the moire pattern will be hidden by the blur and the object will look normal again.
Chuck
Thank you once again, Chuck.
Leen
wrote:
Jodi,
Sorry I took so long to get back to you. Yes, my current scanner can remove moire right after the scanning process. However, I don’t always remember to do this and currently use Ulead PhotoImact 3.0 to do take care of it after the fact. It works *very* well, but I really would like to take the program off of the computer because it’s so old that it doesn’t always work properly with Millennium Edition.
John Corliss
Some would say that was to its credit. ME is generally recognized to be the worst Windows release since Win 1.0.
Thanks for finding that Wendy, and Leen for answering. I intended to copy those techniques but accidentally deleted my bookmark. Got it all safely copied into notepad now!
Terri
If we didnot have Chuck and a front door we would always have to use the back door. He usually is too full of the milk of human kindness. (Shakespeare) 😉
Leen
Chuck
It is not what you did but what you are thinking of doing as my mother would say just before she cuffed me behind the ear.
Grant
Uh, oh….if mind reading software is in use here, I’d better stay scarce….
🙂
Look at www.picturesolve.com, where descreening service is offered, based on Fourier Transform filtering.
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Does anybody know where there’s a free plugin that removes moire patterns? I’ve looked and looked but can’t find one.
You are dealing with existing images? How did they get there in the first place? My epson 2400 scanning s/w can de-screen during scanning and thus prevent them.
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Roger Hunt
