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josel
Nov 28, 2008
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Hi all,
I am wanting to know if you cast your eyes over this image <http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AqMLeVn3Bvs>
As you can see the paper pattern is quite obvious as spotted vertical dots. But how do you get rid of this?
Or can it be done using PSCS3?

Thank you once again

josel
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dave_milbut
Nov 28, 2008
scanned image? try rotating the scan on the glass to remove some of the moire pattern… i think there’s a faq on this somewhere. let me look…
DM
dave_milbut
Nov 29, 2008
hmm… i THOUGHT there was, but i’m not seeing it in the FAQ section…

here’s a google search that brings up a couple techniques you can try:

< http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=removing+moire& btnG=Search>

this one looks good, and it’s the jist of the faq i recall:

<http://www.oberonplace.com/dtp/moire/index.htm>

there are several others in the 1st page of that search that don’t involve rescanning, but different blurring techniques.
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Buko
Nov 29, 2008
Not sure how enlarged that image is.

what you can do is scan at 600ppi or more and use dust and scratches filter. then reduce image as needed.
RB
Robert_Barnett
Nov 29, 2008
That is a paper texture like in photo papers used in the 1970’s. That is not a moire pattern, turning the photo on the scanner will not help this. There is really very little you can do to remove it without blurring the image and looking at the same you gave the image is blurred enough as it is. What I would do is try to enhance the paper texture and make it part of the photo instead of trying to remove it and destroy the photo.

Robert
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josel
Nov 29, 2008
Hey Thanks all
JM
J_Maloney
Nov 29, 2008
The GIMP can do it, evidently. Here’s some links here <http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=185>, here <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_GIMP/Remove_coherent_noise> and here <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b653d9>.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Nov 29, 2008
One solution (excuse the pun) is to scan the photograph in a clear solution, right on the scanner bed. The embossed texture is visible on scans because of the direct light from the scanner, a clear solution on the scanner bed will refract some of this light (at least thats what I’ve picked up – never tried it).

The proposed solution to scan at different angles might also work – only I’d try many different angles, then I’d combine, align and Median Stack them in Photoshop CS4 Extended to see if that made much of a difference. In effect, by this method, you’re excluding anything that is different from frame to frame, and if the embossed structure is lit differently for each scan, then it might work.

But first, I’d try photographing the positive film photo with my digital camera outside on a cloudy day. That kind of diffuse light might be just the trick.
JJ
John Joslin
Nov 29, 2008
There was a discussion on the forums on using FFT (no, not Hannibal Lecter) but I can’t find it.
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Anthony.Ralph
Nov 29, 2008
Check out…

<http://www.skeller.ch/ps/fft_action.php>

I think that is what is needed.

Anthony.
JJ
John Joslin
Nov 29, 2008
Thanks Anthony!
JM
J_Maloney
Nov 29, 2008
Nobody digs through the links in post 6.
JJ
John Joslin
Nov 29, 2008
The way #6 was written I thought they were Gimplinks.
DM
dave_milbut
Nov 29, 2008
The way #6 was written I thought they were Gimplinks.

me too. 🙂

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