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absolutely uniform in brightness

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
July 14, 2025
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Hello,

about the problem.

I need to digitise 50x50cm carpet tiles to be able to lay (or tile) them together in a 3D program for room planning.

To do this, they must be absolutely uniform in brightness. So not darker or lighter at the top or bottom left or right.

You can't achieve this by scanning or photographing.

Now I have thought about dividing the image into several grids and assigning the same brightness values and ideally colour values to each grid element.

but i have not found a way to transfer an absolute brightness value or curve.

attached is a scanned and stitched carpet tile. It looks good at first.
but if you tile several of them together, the picture is very uneven.

or do you have an idea?

Thx reinhard

StrangefinderAuthor

Participant

Hi,

wow!

what great and usefull response.

Highpass look very promising, will test it more.

First test did make red cloudy shadow in the tile, no idea why, jpeg artifacts, i will see.

I will test Substance 3D Sampler after holiday didnot know it before.

THANK YOU ALL

I will write how it ends ....

E

ExUSA

Legend

Make sure you have a high-end display such as an Eizo. A cheap display will not have uniform brightness and you won't be able to accurately tell what your tonality actually is.

Myra Ferguson

Community Expert

You might try Substance 3D Sampler.

davescm

Community Expert

If you doing this a lot, then Substance Sampler is the way to go as it has the tools for de-lighting, tiling (which can be AI driven) and will derive PBR material maps including Basecolor, Roughness, Height and Normal ready to work in a 3D application.

That said if you are only working on that single file then turn pattern preview on, set the eyedropper to a large sample and add some points to view in the info panel. Then use a series and of curves and paint on their masks to limit their application. The aim being to lower the variation across the tile without losing the local texture. Each curve adjustment will be slight.

Dave

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Scott_BFAR

Inspiring

Lookup flat fielding. Flat fielding is the process of taking a photo of the same area with a sheet of white paper and then merging those two so the white is evened out, or flat fielded. Both PS and LR support flat fielding.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Rather than using high pass as described in this ground breaking article from 2001, use the more common frequency separation method popular today.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/art/the-power-of-the-high-pass-filter

Sadly the images weren't carried over from the original site, which makes things harder to understand. Edit: try here for the pics -

https://web.archive.org/web/20211108134331/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3073/the_power_of_the_high_pass_filter.php

This also brought the following to mind:

https://www.metis-group.com

jane-e

Community Expert

@Strangefinder

Which Adobe application are you using? Photoshop? One of the Substance apps? Something else?

Jane

StrangefinderAuthor

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Haha,

i thought i have written everything. The latest Photoshop. (& LR)

reinhard

kglad

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