Photoshop resources library helps designers to create designs faster and get inspired with new ideas that can be done with these elements. Which method do you use to build your design library? Although, it looks like an easy method to have online library of resources that you can access from anywhere or computer, the online resources can be removed from the websites and lost forever. So, they can return to it when they need. Other designers like to bookmark links for resources showcases and websites such as the old paper textures below. Some designers like to download resources such as Photoshop actions, patterns, brushes, textures and host them on their local hard disk or on a remote solid state drive that can be ordered on for a cheap price applying a promo code. Therefore, the design library or Photoshop resources library are the most important elements of any designer workflow. Not only designers, but also photographers, digital artists, and 3D experts. Every graphic and web design is using Adobe Photoshop in their daily tasks and projects. This gives a good result but the texture is still visible.Today, we have high quality old paper textures to add to your Photoshop resources library. This will allow the layer/s to blend together masking out those light shines. With the original scan as your base layer set the layer/s above to ‘Darken’ blending mode. (You can do 4 scans rotating at 90°, however on this occasion I just did 2 scans.) Open the multiple scans into the same Photoshop document, rotating them all to their original orientation and use the ‘Auto-Align Layers’ tool. Scan the photo a second time, but this time rotating the photo 180°. When scanning, the light will shine off the edges of the tiny hexagon mesh. Here is how I achieved a sharp result while retaining detail: How to scan a photo with paper texture

Methods such as despeckle and gaussian blur will simply smooth the image, leading to loss of detail. It required restoring but my main goal was to remove the paper texture. The faded old photo was damaged by crease lines. Jonathan sent over a WW1 Royal Engineers photo of his Grandfather. Read on and I will show you how to remove paper texture when restoring an old photo. This is due to the “silk finish” paper texture, which was used a lot back in the day. When scanning your old family photos to archive those moments, you may face the problem of a honeycomb texture spoiling your scan. How to remove paper texture when restoring an old photo

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