How to remove watercolour paper texture from scanned image in Photoshop CC?

[Guest]

Hi) I can't find a good way to remove watercolour paper texture from my image. A part of my drawing:

How would you remove the texture og save almost all pencils lines and colours?

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Hi

You could try using Blend If

Or a Levels adjustment layer

[Guest]

Ged Traynor, thank you for your answer!! This way is completely new to me. Now I have an another problem: When the paper texture is removed, some colours part are also removed. Can I do something to avoid that?

[Guest]

You've taking the slider to far, try using the Levels adjustment I mentioned above instead

[Guest]

The best result with Levels adjustment is:

The most of the pencil lines are removed, but I would like to save them. Is it possible?

[Guest]

Here's something you could try, put a copy of the original layer on top of the layer stack and then add a layer mask and mask out the bits you don't want

[davescm]

An alternative to Ged's idea which requires the masking to be less careful is to add a curve adjustment layer and set the blending mode to luminosity.

Drag the top of the curve to the left until the paper texture disappears.

Now click on the mask, in the layers panel, and with a low opacity soft black brush - gently brush over any pencil areas you want to bring back. You are actually making the mask semi transparent with this brush

Dave

[Guest]

Nice one Dave, why did I not think of painting on the levels layer mask

[Norman Sanders]

You may also find that this alternative at the settings shown in Surface Blur holds the image color, very light lines and the color. of the paper without the texture,.