Hoping to get some tips about how make make this floor look not to beat up. I've attempted color range adjustment/masking, but it hasn't worked so well. I'd ideally like the whole floor to look similar to the area at the bottom right (under the front end of the machine). I have had success with sampling a small patch of the area under the machine and warping it to overlay the current beat-up flooring area, but its taking forever (I've only gotten about a 1/3 of it done), so I was hoping for a better suggestion on how to do this and still make it look realistic.
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I'd recommend first using the Spot Healing brush to remove the darkest splotches.
Then make a selection of just the flooring and add a Curves adjustment layer. Making the selection first will automatically add a layer mask to it so that the adjustments only apply to the floor.
Remove tool to clean up the grid first:
Then dupe the floor onto its own layer and inverse the image to "highlight" the grid:
The use Layer blending modes to blend the highlights to the original floor:
I used Color Dodge at 60%.
An even simpler option would be to find a clean diamond plate pattern to inlay into the image with a mask.
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