How do I "De" Texturize a photo

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February 6, 2022
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Jeff Arola

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I used a plugin called GMIC in photoshop elements 2022 in several steps, with the most important step of using a FFT filter to remove the pattern, then some noise removal, sharpening and spot removal basically following this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzgYLRnc-_E

result

You can install the GMIC plugin from here

https://github.com/0xC0000054/gmic-8bf/releases

a psd file so you can look at the different layers attached below.

Cotton_Boll_Courts_4582_repairss.zip

Greg_S.

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To truly remove the texture is a very complex technical proposition. There are some available plug-ins that take a lot of work to use in the full Photoshop. These plug-ins also employ some Actions that are not available in Elements (but can be done with a lot more work manually). Here is an example of what I am talking about.

As Peru Bob suggests, you can try using a blur filter to remove the texture but you will then need to sharpen it to get back some detail. In the following example gif, there are 4 layers.

The original
A Filter>Noise>Dust and Scratches filter to remove most of the texture.
Application of the Elements Sharpen tool which brings back some of the texture
Application of a third-party plug-in sharpener to layer #2 which gives a slightly better result