Question about fixing old pics with CS

GraphyFotoz

I have an awsome old pic of my Gramma's Graduation pic from about 1936.
Problem is it's on cardboard type stock with a bumpy texture.
How do I remove that bumpy texture without wrecking my scan of it??? :scratch

Gosh it's fun to redo/resize these old pics!!:D

I have a slew of em to do!! :rolleyes

Shay Stephens

The whole idea behind textured prints is to interfere with scanning (at least these days) so the only thing you can really do it try to edit them away in your editor. The clone tool or perhaps the healing brush will probably be the only practical way to get rid of it. I won't try and pretend that it doesn't take a long time and is a pain in the butt to do. I have done it before and it is just a lot of work.

Another option is to not get rid of the texture, but make it look good.

Karz wrote:

I have an awsome old pic of my Gramma's Graduation pic from about 1936.
Problem is it's on cardboard type stock with a bumpy texture.
How do I remove that bumpy texture without wrecking my scan of it???

Gosh it's fun to redo/resize these old pics!!:D

I have a slew of em to do!!

DoctorIt

I have done some work on old photos of my grandfather, and it's time consuming indeed. Another good trick that I use to touch up bumpy faces or whatever, may work with bumpy photos:

-Use the median filter, set the level high enough that all the bumps/noise disappear (probably well over 5)
-at this point your image will look bad, no detail, don't worry!
-in your history, mark this step with the little history brush
-then go back one step to before you applied the filter
-use the history brush set to lighten or darken, and watch in amazement!
(lighten if you want to remove dark spots from light area, and vice versa)

this is really easy and really works.