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How do I remove watercolor paper texture?

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March 12, 2021
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made an illustration on watercolor picture. Working off a photo. Got colors as I want but cant soften or erace that texture. Please help! Thanks.

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Chuck Uebele

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If you have the original, you might want to scan it at different angles, then combine the scans and use lighten blend mode. That will help tone down the texture.

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default9aeg722p3th8Author

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I actually saw this method on google but it mentioned it was for scanned items. As I used a photo of my art, I didn't think the light aspects would be the same as a scanner so I did not try. Will do so. Thanks for the suggestion and education. I feel new brain cells being formed (or maybe just old ones being resuscitated!)

Chuck Uebele

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Yea, it needs to be the original art.

Norman Sanders

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You may consider choosing the K channel of the CMYK set, copying it, changing the mode to Lab Color and replacing the Lightness channel with the K channel information.

Some very subtle texture generated in the a and b Lab channels still appears in the the image. so choose each of those two and apply Filter > Surface Blur : Redius 39 Threshold 33.

Tbe two bottom images show the darkening of the higlight end of the scale using Curves on the new Lighness channel.

Convert to RGB

At this point, you may alter the color locally: the flowers, adjacent object and wedding dress, for example

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default9aeg722p3th8Author

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Thank you! I will try this so I learn something new. I don't know if this would work for this particular project as I am sending them to be printed but I'm eager to learn as much as I can about PS so I'm eager to play. Thanks so much!

Leslie Moak Murray

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Thanks for calling me a wizard, @Trevor.Dennis haha. I got this result with Brightness/Contrast, though you might want to go back in and recolor a few things - having said that, I like the watercolor paper texure, personally:

Trevor.Dennis

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Leslie I was not sure what a female wizard might be called, and there was no way I was going to risk calling you a witch! Plus your illustrations owe more to skill and raw tallent than magic. I bet you don't even realise how good you are, and think it is no big deal. 🙂

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default9aeg722p3th8Author

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now I really wanna see her work! Instagram???

Chuck Uebele

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Try surface blur and maybe in conjunction with frequency separation.

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default9aeg722p3th8Author

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Yes! Think you meant Surface Blur and yes! Thank you, it did help. Not fully, but seems much smoother. Hoping it prints better this way. Thanks for the suggestion.

Trevor.Dennis

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Not a particularly easy fix I'd say, and I was not totally sure what your were aiming at, but this might get you closer to what you want. Somethings, like the text, are easier to just redo, and that font was obviously Courier New, so it only took a tiny play with the kerning to get a close match. I love the illustration. One of our forum regulars Leslie does similar work, and is a total wizard at it. I might send her a PM to make sure she sees this thread.

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default9aeg722p3th8Author

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THANK YOU! And what did you do to get this result? It looks great. I did play around using some of the tips in the video you shared. It did help. Off to compare your work with what I was able to manage. AND to read the rest of this thread. again, MANY THANKS! Grateful for the help!

lambiloon

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Hi check the video hope it helps you...regards

https://youtu.be/Ns8Hf1TL2qA

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional

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default9aeg722p3th8Author

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Thanks so much. I can definitely use this for other projects. Not sure if it's going to help now but will pull out of it what I can. It tried this project without painting a background but I had so many loose, almost lacey sort of details, it was really hard to isolate what I needed to. I then painted the background but can't get the underlying paper texture to smooth fully. I'll give some of those steps a try to see if it gets me closer.

Attaching a copy of the project to help you understand my issue better. Thanks for your help!

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