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June 18, 2024
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Removing Horizontal Scan lines from a yearbook photo

  • June 18, 2024
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I got a scanned photo from a yearbook and it has bad horizontal scan lines (some colored) and was wondering about tricks to remove them.  I have to print it 24" x 40"   I tried to do a layer with a gaussian blur and a top layer with an unsharp mask but to remove the line the blur removes too much detail.  Any ideas?  Tricks?   maybe even if I could get some outlines of the eyes or something?

 

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Semaphoric
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 19, 2024

Instead of Gaussian Blur, I tried using Motion Blur:

 

which at least only loses sharpness in one direction (shown with no added sharpening).

 

Maybe a striped pattern overlay of some sort? The Median filter is also a possibility.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 18, 2024

See if this helps.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert