How to fix in PS?

[greg jansen]

I have a photo I need restored. See attached crop of the image. What filter

or technique in PS would you use to remove the pattern? Everything I try tends

to blur the face too much. Thanks

[greg jansen]

Sorry- here is the JPEG.<div></div>

[bruce_margolis]

That's difficult because the pattern is embedded in the image. If you don't mind a lot of work, the clone tool will clean it up. Hopefully someone else can come up with an easier fix.

[davidlong]

A Fourier transform plugin will probably be useful. <a href="http://www.lunacore.com/blog/?p=87">Here's</a> a random result from google to illustrate what you can do with that sort of thing.

[greg jansen]

Thanks David. I'll give it a try and report back. Looks promising.

[knobstone]

A question about the Fourier process...in the instruction how-to, he says "We can then remove the diagonal pattern in the source image by getting rid of the lower frequencies associated with it (near the center of the image):". I don't understand HOW we get rid of the diagonal pattern, do we do it with the clone tool, or how? Can someone explain it. Thanks, Joe.

[greg jansen]

I'm at that same point. How?

[martijn_houtman]

<p>

Cool, this really is a nifty method. It also seems to work fairly well.

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<p>

In the red channel you see lots of repeating patterns like diagonal lines, stars, etc. All of

these stand for certain repeating patterns in the original image. Remove them in the

Fourier analysis (Red channel picture) with for instance a clone tool or regular brush, apply

the inverse FFT and to retrieve the (new) original image.

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[greg jansen]

COOL! It worked best when I zoomed in (when only viewing the red channel), then used real small brushes to only cover the star areas.

 

I have a ways to go on this photo, but now it just looks like regular cracks on the picture, which should be much easier to fix.

 

Thanks David!<div></div>