I was browsing the 'difficult' photos and noticed one probably from the 70s which had a very marked honeycomb texture in the paper. Difficult at the best of times since any cloning or pixel shifting then disturbs the underlying pattern.
I came across a plugin and technique called 'FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)' and it actually works quite well. If anyone is interested, there's a tutorial together with a link for the download of the plugin on Retouchpro - "Using the FFT filter to remove photographic paper texture" under their tutorial section. I'm not sure whether one has to be a member or not to look through those. No biggie, it's a great place to be anyway :)
Just thought it worth mentioning as one of those little heard of plugins.
Leah M
very good info. thanks for the tip!
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I understand the fft filter is pretty good. But it doesn't work on macs. :(
Hi John
That issue was raised on the forum and here is the reply -
There IS a mac version. It's called ImageJ
Image J is part of The Image Processing Toolkit
Available Here for Free
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html
ImageJ runs on Linux, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows
The Docs are here
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/
And the bit about FFT is here
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/menus/process.html#fft
It is Not a plugin but a complete program. You will need Java Installed.
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I don't know whether that helps at all. This was a thread from a year ago, so I'm unsure of recent developments. I'm not a regular Mac user.
Worth a try maybe?
Leah M
Thanks, Leah, for the link!