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Halftone moiré pattern mess

Weston Graves
Werebeagle
Join date: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,059
06-23-2009 17:09
I scanned a black and white image from a magazine for upload into SL. It looked fine on my screen and still looked fine when I adjusted the scale to 512 x 512 pixels.

But when I uploaded it into SL, it then developed a moiré effect from the halftone screen dots. I once knew how to resolve this in Photoshop, but I have long forgotten. And I'm not sure how to resolve it anyway since it looked fine everywhere except SL.

Should I try rezzing it at different sizes? Or would uploading it in a different format than TGA make a difference? I think SL converts everything to a form of JPG anyway doesn't it?

(For the record, I own the copyright of this image. I just have no extant version of it other than the magazine photo.)
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Viktoria Dovgal
Join date: 29 Jul 2007
Posts: 3,593
06-23-2009 17:26
The magic google term is descreening, that should turn up a lot of hits for different fixes, most boil down to adding a little noise filtering and then blurring. Some scanner software has descreening built in these days, you might check for that too.
Dekka Raymaker
thinking very hard
Join date: 4 Feb 2007
Posts: 3,898
06-24-2009 02:54
Also while scanning if you have the area, scan the image in at a 15 degree angle, apply your descreening method and then rotate to align, then you shouldn't need to blur.