How do I delete creases?

[Tonio_88]

Hi guys,
If it is possible, can someone explain to me how to delete the creases on the backpack?

Thanks

 

[IamSam]

Hello. Just for clarification, the backpack is covered with "creases" and looks very natural. Which creases are you referring to or are you referring to them all?

 

[Tonio_88]

Yep, maybe the image attached clarify what I wanted to say

 

[Rich54]

What is your level of Photoshop skill? There is a somewhat advanced technique called Frequency Separation, which allows you to separate the texture on one layer and the underlying colors and shading on another layer. Your backpack has a very distinct dimpled texture that can be cleanly extracted using frequency separation. But... if you're very new to Photoshop, the technique may be too confusing and overwhelming. Tutorial attached, below.

Here's what I did on this blue portion of the image, using frequency separation. (I deliberately left a little hint of the wrinkles to keep it natural-looking).

 

[Tonio_88]

wooow, wonderful! Amazing! Now I know it's possible, I try to improve mi skills, Thanks for the video attached.

 

[Tonio_88]

Hi, I'm trying to follow some tutorials and my results are going to be better, but not like yours :-(. Just a clarify, Did you use mixer brush tool as well? did you use clone tool or anything else?
Thank you

 

[Rich54]

Here's what I did:

• Following the tutorial, I copied the image onto two new layers and temporarily turned off the visibility of the top layer.
• On the middle layer, I did a Gaussian blur of about 3 pixels, which is just enough to make the texture disappear.
• Back to the top layer, I turned on it's visibility and went to Image>Apply Image, using the settings shown in the tutorial. Change the blend mode Linear Light. This top layer is now the texture, which we'll use later.
• You now have three layers: the original image; the blurred layer that the video calls the Base Layer; and the top layer that contains the texture.
• For now, turn off the visibility of all layers except the original bottom layer.

Next Steps:

• On your original, bottom layer, make a selection of one of the blue panels of your backpack.
• Copy the blue area to its own layer, immediately above the original layer.
• Reactivate the selection of the blue area and give it a very strong Gaussian Blur. I used about 25 pixels for your image. The goal is to blur it enough so that most of the dents and creases that you don't like are filled-in.
• I copied this blurred layer two more times to better fill-in the blurriness out to the edges. I merged these three blurred layers to get something like this:

Re-apply the Texture:

• Make a new copy of your texture layer and turn on its visibility.
• Normally in Frequency Separation, you would use the Patch Tool on the texture layer to replace small areas of "bad" texture with other areas of "good" texture.
• In this case, because the blue panel with bad texture is relatively large, I used a different approach. (In my revised approach, the "Base Layer" will no longer be required.)
• Using the Move tool, I moved the entire texture layer to the right to cover the blue area as much as possible with "good" texture" (see image).
• Then I applied a layer mask to the texture layer to mask away everything except the blue portion.
• By making multiple copies of the texture layer, I can repeat this process later on for other parts of the image where you want to smooth-out the creases.
• Because your image is so large, you may want to delete the unneeded portions of the texture layer rather than masking them, in order to keep the file size to a reasonable level.
• I've attached my PSD file so that you can see the individual layers.