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How to smooth out blotchy areas that used to be grainy

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December 15, 2021
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Hi all,

Please see the below image.

As you can see, there is a kind of blotchiness that is the result of me using the smooth tool in the old Photoshop Fix app. The original image was very grainy and I wanted to give it a cleaner look. Does anyone know if there is a specific way to smooth it out even further? Should I just stick with the spot healing tool? I find that when I use the spot healing tool, I am just creating new blotches in different places. The blur tool isn't much more effective as I don't see much change when I use it.

I understand this is kind of an obsure question but I am stuck in out to fix that backdrop color.

Thanks for any ideas.

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Correct answer mglush

What version of Photoshop are you using?

In the last few version so of PS, if you choose one of the selection tools (like Quick mask for instance), in the Options bar, you will see an option named "Select Subject" If you click on that, it will do a pretty good job of selecting your hand.

Then I would suggest putting it on its own layer so that it stays clean and sharp. After doing that, you can fill the original layer with blue and get a really clean and smooth background. You could also do a blue graident from top left to bottom right for visual interest.

Let us know if that helps!

Michelle

mglush

Community Expert

I agree with Bojan, I think using Gaussian blur woudl smooth it out really nicely.

I took a screen shot of your image and took it into PS and chose Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur and cranked it all the way up to the edge at 1000.

Here is the result:

Does that give you the result you want? Also, you can run the filter on it as many times as you want until you get what you are looking for.

Let us know if that helps!

Michelle

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SJRiegel

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Blur > Average should do this all in one go.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

Not sure what is your end goal in first place. Have you also ever tried using Gaussian Blur to smooth blotchiness?

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kirbydooAuthor

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Here is a screenshot of the full document.

I would like for the blue background to be smooth without any of the apparent blotches of lighter and darker blue. I do think using the gaussian blur would be a smart idea but I'm not sure how to get the entire hand and text to remain the same while the background changes. I've tried to use the magnetic lasso to cut out the hand and text but that has proven to be quite a pain in the rear as I am constantly having to start over after veering my mouse off-course. That happens because I zoom in to try to get as exactly on the edge of the hand as possible, but I have to scroll up to get the rest of it, and my mouse moves the lasso out of control.

mglush

Correct answer

Community Expert

What version of Photoshop are you using?

In the last few version so of PS, if you choose one of the selection tools (like Quick mask for instance), in the Options bar, you will see an option named "Select Subject" If you click on that, it will do a pretty good job of selecting your hand.

Then I would suggest putting it on its own layer so that it stays clean and sharp. After doing that, you can fill the original layer with blue and get a really clean and smooth background. You could also do a blue graident from top left to bottom right for visual interest.

Let us know if that helps!

Michelle

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

In the Camera Raw filter, in Basic properties, you could try removing Contrast and Texture. After that you may need to increase Vibrance,

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