I am 714, and can now see how blue it is. I started out by running Dust&Scratches at 4/0. I realised it became a bit soft, but was intent on getting the moiré away with. Then I went for colour

Gerald, What was the proper sharpening routine that you used? My version was 723, AKA *that one*, and I tried the

Hector, As I was searching for a program to eliminate the screen pattern, I came across one that sounds like the same one you described, but a newer version. I used a plug in Pattern suppressor 2.5,

I was wondering the same thing myself. I didn't participate in this exercise, but FFT would've been my first step. john castronovo

John, I have started to look at the images in bridge or Photoshop, because I think the color is truer. I will try the order as you suggested, since I used it at the virtual beginning. Tom

You can remove the texture 100 percent without it getting soft with something like this: https://groups.io/g/colortheory/message/25296 Hector Davila

I also used the pattern suppression plugin (version 705). After a few experiments I decided to use it after contrast and colour enhancement rather than before, as this seemed to give the best result.

My favorites for this exercise were 704 705 710 715 717 726 727 728 They each had reasonable pattern reduction and good color Tom.

Panama photo My entry is 723. I started with a regular photo correction process, fairly confident I could wipe out the moire in LAB. Fortunately, the A and B channels did fine with a Gaussian blur of

It looks sharp enough to me. Something like the roughly comparable #723, now *that one* tried too hard to kill the pattern and wound up soft and blurry. The issue with #701 is depth in the fleshtone.

One of the most difficult aspects of this image was the handling of the moiré. Leave too much of it and it's distracting (e.g. in 724). Remove too much and the image gets soft. My own version is 701,

No, but this is definitely a blending exercise. The exercise has three separate challenges: 1) Getting a logical color balance. 2) Having good detail in the faces, for example making sure I have a

Hi James, Yes, this was kind of sneaky-devilish in that the original image is very soft but has that nice, crisp texture in it. How to smooth & sharpen simultaneously?! (and still get a sense of fur

Ultimately I thought this was very difficult and had little hope of creating something very satisfactory. However, I thought mine came out fairly good in the face of how difficult it was. The colors

Wow! What a huge range of variation in these renderings: in overall color range, saturation, casts, etc., in sharpness, global and local contrast, whether & how folks dealt with those artifacts from

I thought it interesting that many of the entrants got rid of the texture, however there were many that left in the whole image. I do not care for the texture in people's faces. James Gray

I have been using Giuliana's Channels Power Tool for several years. I have also worked with her on troubleshooting the PPW panel. James Gray

I like the 726 version because it has those realistic colors you get with expensive cameras like Hasselblad and end up in Time magazine. I like the 728 par version  (i don't know what par means)

Please be advised that #716 was submitted in ProPhoto RGB rather than sRGB as instructed. If you are doing any comparing with this picture you need to convert it first. Dan

While discussion continues of the Panama shot, I’ve posted the next case study, another selection from the MIT study. Therefore, as with the Veiled Bride, Cinque Terre, and Colosseum studies,