RootsChat.Com
Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Surtees on Thursday 08 October 20 16:19 BST (UK)
-
Please can a kind person sharpen this image for me please.
Thank you.
Ian
-
Not sure what to do about the printing dots
-
My try. It's a bit of a compromise, sacrificing some detail to get rid of the lines.
Peter
-
Second attenpt and managed to get most of the newspaper stipple removed
-
One from me
Pat
-
In the olden days (i.e. 10 years or so ago) we used an FFT (fast fourier transform) plugin filter to remove unwanted texture like this. I've not go one anymore and can't seem to find one onlne. There must still be one available somewhere.
Found this
http://ft.rognemedia.no/
-
Just a quick try
-
One from me:
-
Thanks for that Gadget, but I don't have Photoshop but interesting none the less.
One from me
-
I'm sure it works with Elements as well, tomkin. I read it somewhere when i was doing a search.
I might try it later. I recall applying a grey mask over one of the channels and then brushing out the little white star type marks. Then, lo and behold, the nasty pattern would be gone (or almost). I think it was George who told Pels and me about it originally (not Sioras - forgotten his RC name*)
*miagre1
(I'll PM him and link to this thread - he's good at doing stuff like this. )
-
Hello Gadget :-* :-*
Thanks for this link and a wake up call ;D
I've ran FFT over it and a bit of imagenomic noiseware.
There is a fair bit of jpegging on the original. "DEJPEG" might help :-\
I have altered not levels/exposure, nor done any repairs.
FFT is available (for a small donation) from Charles at 4N6site.com
Best regards George
-
PS
I had to pir borrow ::) a copy of photoshop 7 in 32 bit as my CS6 running 64 bit would not have the 4N6 websites 8bf file.
George
-
Thanks ever so, George. :D
I'll have a go at your transformed version tonight as I've just had a grocery delivery and they seem to have given me doubles!!!
Why don't you come back and do the odd restore.
Gadget
-
Desist from calling my restores odd. ;)
-
A try from me, regards, John.
-
I've worked on the FFT version that George supplied but getting rid of the newsprint pattern has brought out the very severe jpeg artifacts. I've used lots of normal type restoration tools and also put it through some aps/filters that I don't really like using.
Here's a small version with a skylight filter to give more depth.
Gadget
-
Also a slightly larger version - removed as I don't like it at all!
:-\
-
nice work Gadget :D :D
-
Thanks, Tomkin. You're being very kind :)
-
Gadget, there's a free download called Image J which has an FFT filter: https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html)
It's not a plugin so you need to go from PSE to Image J and back again. I've only had limited success with about one in four tries giving a good result. Sometimes the FFT just doesn't work very well and sometimes there are other issues like the ones you've described. Anyway it works, sometimes...
Peter
-
Thanks, Peter. The one I linked to is also free. I've downloaded it but haven't put it in my PS plugin folder yet.
I used the file that George put up. It took a lot of work to get rid of the jpeg dotty mess!
I have the latest PS CC so I'll see how or if it works any better with this version.
-
That's a great result Gadget, nice one :D
Carol
-
May be sold by now but here it is.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-88903913.html
-
Link to an easier method:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/removing-newsprint-pattern-from-photos/td-p/7645875?page=1
and quick result ~
(https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=838610.0;attach=519353;image)
No restoration done apart from removing pattern
-
Ooh I remember that Plug in too Gadget ... anyway had a fiddle and came up with a version but not that happy with it either ...
-
And another one ... maybe slightly better ???
-
It's not a nice original, Poll. Those filters seem to work best on good scans and I think this one was originally on the Arkengarthdale website. It looks exactly the same. So how many image generations it's gone through, is anyone's guess.
You've made a good show of it though.
Hope you're keeping well - we're nearly in internment territory up here!
-
You could try putting it through Remini. It seems to work on some of the images.
-
We were going to The Gower for a week but we may have to cancel now... ah well there's plenty to do in the garden....grrrr.
-
I am so very grateful to all who have helped with this difficult image.
Thank you for your time and kindness.