Textured paper

[ourbill]

I recently scanned a couple of 1970s photos on my Epson 4490 at 600dpi in jpeg, however, the photo is on some type of textured paper that feels pimple-like and results in faint black and white shadows/smudges  all over an enlargement, not very good for printing. I’ve tried layers on Photoshop with no luck, even reducing/increasing  the resolution and scanning again.
Any help, have you seen this before with textured paper prints that where popular in the 60s and 70s.

[Gadget]

Hi Bill

Some scanner and graphics software have ways of reducing this |(often referred to as moire) However, it is very difficult to get rid of it without a lot of hard work.

I play it at it's own game and print the images on textured paper 


Gadget

[ourbill]

Thanks for the reply Gadget.

I got a not too bad print A4 by changing the colour to black and white and a bit of fiddling with Photoshop.
With my glass off everything's perfect!
My cousin wants to put it in a frame, so it must have been OK.

Bill

[jc26red]

If you have photoshop then this is the way to get rid of of the texture.

http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=185

I used this technique on one of China's postings
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,472352.0.html

Jenny

[Gadget]

Hi Jenny

I'd totally forgotten about those Fourier Transforms - always though they were what engineers used   

 I remember downloading them maybe 3-4 years ago - must be more than 3 years  because they're on my computer up here -  when Emjaybee. George,  miagre1 and others where talking about them on a thread. I had a play but reverted to some other filters/techniques!

Had a play again today and more impressed this time than earlier.

Must stress that there is still a need to do proper restoration afterwards though or it defeats the object 


Gadget

[jc26red]

well yes, definitely the restore comes after the fourier transforms.... but it works ok for me and worth having a play with, the tutorial is pretty straight forward I'm pleased to say.

I must admit I haven't used it for a while as I'd given restoring a rest for a while, I had to go back and look at the  tutorial agan to play.

Hopefully I'll have some more time shortly, we are in the middle of moving abroad and life is hectic at the minute.

Jenny

[PhotoRepair]

Might be worth trying Image Analyzer 1.32, its free and has a small disk footprint. It works wonders with paper textures and a quick search on the net on how to use it.

Put simply, you go to "operations" Filters" , "Frequency Domain Filter"

 It can handle much larger files than the limit of 3000 pixels of the FFT photoshop plugins found on RetouchPro, although your pc may chug a bit when removing the texture from much larger files i.e 6000 pixels wide.

I hope this helps

Neil Rhodes