Editing photos from yearbooks

hark

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One of my high school classmates is being awarded an honor for her gymnastics participation back in the day. She asked me to help get her copies of the yearbook photos. No matter whether the images are scanned or photographed with my macro lens, they show the linen look of the paper. Do any of you have suggestions on how to remove the linen look without softening the image? I did use ACR noise reduction and moire reduction (using a brush), but as you can see, it still shows up.

I wound up photographing all of the images for her since some of these I had to do at the high school library (no way to scan them). Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

By the way, none of the originals are sharp compared with today's standard for sharpness although I did do some sharpening on them.

Oh...and any suggestions on using Nik's Silver Efex Pro 2 for better B&W? All of these have a slight ivory tint to them. I've never used Silver Efex Pro 2 for anything....

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Bikerbrent

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What kind of lighting did you use for the photo attempt? Good flat lighting from 45 degrees on each side might help. Not sure if you would be able to set this up in the library though.
 

hark

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What kind of lighting did you use for the photo attempt? Good flat lighting from 45 degrees on each side might help. Not sure if you would be able to set this up in the library though.

I took the photos last week so need to use what I have. I put the yearbooks either on a chair (and stood directly above them) or on the floor for the full page photos. Since I didn't want to deal with glare, I tried to shield the pages with my body's shadow. Didn't use any flash and had to stay put in one room without windows.

Still looking for any info on editing if anyone has suggestions, please!
 

Blacktop

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One of my high school classmates is being awarded an honor for her gymnastics participation back in the day. She asked me to help get her copies of the yearbook photos. No matter whether the images are scanned or photographed with my macro lens, they show the linen look of the paper. Do any of you have suggestions on how to remove the linen look without softening the image? I did use ACR noise reduction and moire reduction (using a brush), but as you can see, it still shows up.

I wound up photographing all of the images for her since some of these I had to do at the high school library (no way to scan them). Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

By the way, none of the originals are sharp compared with today's standard for sharpness although I did do some sharpening on them.

Oh...and any suggestions on using Nik's Silver Efex Pro 2 for better B&W? All of these have a slight ivory tint to them. I've never used Silver Efex Pro 2 for anything....

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I use Silver FX Pro for all my B&W . It's real simple really. There are a bunch of presets that you can use as a starting point. Pick the one that comes closest to what you like, and start playing with the sliders until you get what you need .

If you have any specific questions about it, just ask. If I'm around I'll try and help. Also Jake uses that program as far as I remember, so he could help as well if I'm not available.

BTW, can you introduce me to the cutie on the bottom left side? :)
 
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Horoscope Fish

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One of my high school classmates is being awarded an honor for her gymnastics participation back in the day. She asked me to help get her copies of the yearbook photos. No matter whether the images are scanned or photographed with my macro lens, they show the linen look of the paper. Do any of you have suggestions on how to remove the linen look without softening the image? I did use ACR noise reduction and moire reduction (using a brush), but as you can see, it still shows up.
The only thing I could think of to try was using a Guassian Blur filter on the whole image. Just enough to soften the linen texture. I then used a white mask/black brush to selectively remove the Blur from faces and hands. It was quick and dirty but the overall effect was less than stellar. If I were you, I would probably avoid doing any global sharpening since that is probably accentuating the textures you don't want to be seeing; perhaps selectively sharpen instead.

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Oh...and any suggestions on using Nik's Silver Efex Pro 2 for better B&W? All of these have a slight ivory tint to them.
Desaturate the B&W image to remove the tint.
 

hark

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Thanks @Blacktop and [MENTION=13090]Horoscope Fish[/MENTION] - I will try out your suggestions this weekend. Like Fish mentioned, sharpening everything makes the linen more noticeable. Will try some spot sharpening instead.
 
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