How do you even out a wooden texture?

[dma9551]

In the image below, the fence is all washed out in areas. I've been cloning parts of it to even it out, but it's tedious and I'm not getting the result I want. Is there a way to quickly even the whole texture/look? I work for an architecture firm, often retouch images, and this is a recurring situation on images so I'd really like to know once for all. 

The original image is very high res, this is just a screen shot:

[Stephen Marsh]

Traditional methods would include using clone stamp or brush set to color blend or on a layer set to color blend, then perhaps another layer for the burn tool or using non-destructive layer blend based burn etc.

A good way to do this is via "frequency separation" so as to separate the hi-frequency detail/texture from the underlying low-frequency tone.

An action here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhoal39t9ygl6tt/Frequency%20Splitter%20v4%20Conditional.atn?dl=0

This is pretty common today, but back in 2001 this blew my mind!

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3073/the_power_of_the_high_pass_filter.php

You will find plenty of tutorials or videos etc.

[dma9551 · Accepted solution]

Perfect, thank you!