I am trying to add( copy and paste) photographs of family members to a
coloured photograph scanned from a newspaper. The people in the newspaer
photograph are obviously composed of many dots whereas my copied and pasted
family members are not ( at the degree of magnification I am using) . How
can I make the family members have the same dot texture as those in the
scanned photograph?

On Mar 17, 6:29 pm, "Martin Waddell" <lobs...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I am trying to add( copy and paste) photographs of family members to a
> coloured photograph scanned from a newspaper. The people in the newspaer
> photograph are obviously composed of many dots whereas my copied and pasted
> family members are not ( at the degree of magnification I am using) . How
> can I make the family members have the same dot texture as those in the
> scanned photograph?

Would it be possible to post a link to an image of the texture you
want to convert the photos to?

Thanks,
Ron

Is the newspaper photo a recent one? If so a lot of newspapers will sell
you a proper photo of a recent image at reasonable cost. The scan of the
newspaper image will never be much good.


Maklcolm

"Martin Waddell" <lobster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I am trying to add( copy and paste) photographs of family members to a
>coloured photograph scanned from a newspaper. The people in the newspaer
>photograph are obviously composed of many dots whereas my copied and pasted
>family members are not ( at the degree of magnification I am using) . How
>can I make the family members have the same dot texture as those in the
>scanned photograph?

The dots are from a half-tone screen. For those without the dots, set the
mode to bitmap, choose half-tone, dot. You will have to experiment a bit.

"Martin Waddell" <lobster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>I am trying to add( copy and paste) photographs of family members to a
>coloured photograph scanned from a newspaper. The people in the newspaer
>photograph are obviously composed of many dots whereas my copied and pasted
>family members are not ( at the degree of magnification I am using) . How
>can I make the family members have the same dot texture as those in the
>scanned photograph?

How about removing the dots from the newspaper images? If you don't mind a
bit of experimentation, you can do a good job of removing the dots, using a
free FFT plugin:
http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/index.php?topic=62.0
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Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com