adjust old photo made on bromportrait paper

[eugzl]

Hi All.
I would like to adjust old photo made on bromportrait photo paper. Is it possible remove texture of bromportrait photo paper? If yes, how it to do?
The image has such texture:
Thanks.

 

[Tom Mann]

"Is it possible remove texture of bromportrait photo paper? If yes, how it to do?"

The most important way to either accentuate or reduce the texture in something like this is to rephotograph the original and, use the correct lighting techniques. If you want to reduce the texture, you would use very soft, diffuse light. Trying to do it after the fact in Photoshop is like "closing the barn door after the horses have already left". LOL.

T

 

[Trevor Dennis]

Try Google with Photoshop FFT filter (Stands for Fast Fourier Transformation) It works like magic when it does.

 

[Tom Mann]

There are a couple of aftermarket FFT filters that also work quite well (within their limitations). I'll try to look up the URL's when I get a chance. That being said, I know they wouldn't knock back the texture completely, but they might be adequate.

Also, Neat Image, the noise reduction plugin also does a surprisingly good job on regular patterns, however, without a doubt, photographing it with proper lighting will always be the best bet.

T

 

[eugzl]

Hi JohnD. Thanks for replay.

I downloaded FFT from link that you found and did those steps:
1. copy FFT_RGB.8bf and IFFT_8bf to the 64 bit plugin folder.
2. copy libfftwx64_3-3.dll to the 64 bit photoshop folder, OR the windows system folder.

But I confused with next steps:
3. You will probably already have the msvc*.dll files already installed.
4. Try the filter, and if it does not run, copy the enclosed files to the system folder.

What do I need to do and how to install msvc*.dll library? And if I'm right, to try the filter I need just open Photoshop and select FFT filter. Is it correct? What enclosed files I need to copy to the system folder, I gees it is Windows folder, in case if the filter does not run?

Thanks.