graphics help - varied randomized dot pattern

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January 31, 2025
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Hi all, I am tracing the damaged artwork on a pinball table. Most is pretty straightforward but there is a large section where the background is dark blue and there are misshapen black dots that vary in density to achieve a shading pattern that varies from almost full black to mostly blue.

I am trying to figure out how to recreate/reproduce this without trying to trace each blob.

Attached is a section of the playfield. you can see in the lower left the dense pattern and the upper right considerably less. I am kind of at a loss to reproduce this, any suggestions?

Correct answer Mark532011

thanks guys, I originally though I would need to generate a new gradient, but after your reminder, I spent some time experimenting with different tolerances and I can get about 90% of the original selected and then clone the rest. Its a bit tedious but it will work.

Normally, the graphics I am cleaning up are quite a bit simpler. Here is a section of a typical one, note the solid color areas...

Peru Bob

Community Expert

You might be able to do some cloning, healing and add a gradient.

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Mark532011AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

thanks guys, I originally though I would need to generate a new gradient, but after your reminder, I spent some time experimenting with different tolerances and I can get about 90% of the original selected and then clone the rest. Its a bit tedious but it will work.

Normally, the graphics I am cleaning up are quite a bit simpler. Here is a section of a typical one, note the solid color areas...

Greg_S.

Community Expert

I don't have an artistic bone in my body, so I still don't understand what you are doing. You talk about blue shaded areas, but all I see on my screen are black/grey shades with blue blobs. Selecting the blue blobs with the Magic Wand tool created a perfect selection of the blue blobs. If you want everything but the blue blobs selected, you can invert the selection.

If you want to darken the background area behind the text, you can use a Levels adjustment to do so.

Greg_S.

Community Expert

I'm sorry, but I have read your post several times and don't understand what you are trying to do. This is the Photoshop Elements forum, not a graphics program forum. You talk about tracing an object, but I'm not sure if you are talking about tracing with another program, or whether you want to alter a photograph. I can tell you how to select all the blue blobs in your photo and change them to another color in Photoshop Elements. But it doesn't sound like that is what you are asking about.

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Mark532011Author

Inspiring

Sorry for being confusing. I am attempting to redraw this section using a scan of the original as a reference. Eventually I will print out the new graphics and put them over the original painted wood. The black lines and fonts are easy, I can trace most of the original with paintbrush and lines. The issue is the dark blue area. You can see in your example, that selecting the black results in a poor selection set due to the low contrast and poor quality of the original. I was hoping there was some creative use of a filter or layer masking or something that I could use to reproduce this effect

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