Old picture restoration.

[Xosé M. CS]

Hello. I'm new to the Photoshop community, and I'd need some help with an old picture restoration. It was printed on textured paper. Not a regular pattern, just coarse, irregular paper (a sample attached to this message). Moreover, I need to remove a person in that picture, which Photoshop does fine but also removes the texture and  thus makes the alteration evident. I know how to remove or at least mitigate regular patterns. but not that "coaseness". I can do either:

- Remove the person, but keeping the pattern (can it be done?).

- Remove the the irregular pattern, and the remove the person in the "flattened" version.

Nothing illegal here, just a very old family picture with somebody who shouldn't be there in it. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer · Accepted solution]

@Xosé M. CS I would give the new Generative Fill a try with something this complicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6CKr1Sriw

[Xosé M. CS]

First of all, thank you very much for your help. I selected the "unwanted" person and chose to fill up the area based on the environment, with weird results: the picture was a studio groupal picture, so the environment is full of faces and the filling was. thus, full of floating eyes, mouths and noses... So I follwed the other path, I "flattened" the paper texture, cropped the "intruder" and the applied a new layer, with generative fill again, with the prompt of "old photographic white textured paper" to the picture. Not bad, you can feel something vaguely "fake" in the result and of course, it won't stand a forensic analysis. but I think it will do the trick. Again, thanks for your suggestion, it didn't solved the problem but put me on the track for a solution.