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FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation) Photoshop plugin by Alex V. Chirokov

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This is a very great freeware-plugin for photoshop. You can eliminate any form of regular patterns (e.g. removing the CMYK-raster from a scanned print).
It's hard to find the plugin on the net. And if you find it, you will likely have an old version, which have some problems with larger images.
I asked Alex Chirokov for a new version and he had a new version ready! (Thank you very much, Alex!)
It now works for images up to 4800x4800 pixels.

This page will save this great and free plugin for the future...
» Download Photoshop FFT plugin by Alex Chirokov [version: July 2008]
» FFT filter in action


And here's my tutorial ...


How to remove the CMYK raster from a scan (so that you will encounter no Moiré effect when printing it):
Original scan:
Applying the FFT filter:
Switch to green channel:
All white stars you can see are a representation of the regular CMYK-pattern. Cover all white stars with a black pen (except the center star!):
Now switch back to RGB and apply the IFFT filter:
Because the output of the FFT/IFFT is monochrome, you need to add the original colors. Move the original scan above the current layer, use a little Gaussian Blur (~1.5 pixels) and switch the layer mode to "Color":
And done!
Here you can see the difference (I used bi-linear scaling for both pics so you can see the missing moiré effect)


Kommentar von Jonas am 09.08.2010
This is VERY interesting.

I believe with some further improvement to the plug-in this could be made a lot more user-friendly - no image size limitations would also be needed (until then we have to cut up our images). I will download this and try it out.


Zuletzt geändert am: 12.02.2010