'You set the levels layer to darken, right?' (or it is because 4 times will be easier to level black. Maybe I overused a bit for 2 times one too. You need to test to figure what is better.ĭo it 4 times, pattern maybe is better after leveling compare to 2 times but details in black matter is also lost a bit.īe careful to not overlevel for black too.

'How many times did you use the Complement pattern?' And if we resized, we would only resize it up. 'Or did you reduce the size and then use the Complement Pattern?' Level it slightly don't make it worse either. Level slightly here is just for denoising to be done better.įor this raws, don't need to level it first. If page is too bright (because of scan setting), level slightly to make it darker or adjust brightness.Ĭoplement is actually denoise, so you can see if denoise was done well or not. We can level slightly (or even adjust brightness -50 then complement, after that adjust brightness 50) in order to complement can have its effect.įor example, if page is too dark (because of scan setting), complement will cause losing many details in black matter so lv a bit to make it brighter a bit. Yeah, at original size, because resize will make image blurry, the effect will be less (and we don't use sharp tool at this size) so 300 dpi or 600 dpi, do at original size.Īctually, it depends on raw. 'Did you level it first, at the original size?' 'I'm assuming you started off with the raw in the original post.' But still, really small black lines were lost with this kind of cleaning way. for other cleaner, it is must when cleaning with topaz way. And it is pretty different from normal topaz way. And, I see some cleaners have their own ways to deal with tank raws. We need to level black matter and white matter separately.

With 1200 px high, don't need to lower texture (recommend it).Īctually I don't know to level raws purely. Like I said, you should change sharp setting + use small size like 1200-1400 px + use topaz clean. In brief, you can clean with sharp + topaz denoise + topaz clean with texture 0.6-0.8 (at final size) for this kind of raws but be careful, don't over denoise it. To make pattern smooth, we have to denoise it. still use sharp in big size to keep dots when leveling and don't use blur (because blur will harm dots). It makes black matter is easier to level and dots is better a bit. I use denoise but only use it indirectly. There is a hybrid way that I used for 300 dpi tank raws. blur to make black matter is easier to level). (sharp make dots bolder so it will be harder to lose when leveling. You can sharp it a bit and use blur > surface blur in big size so that it will be easier to level. I intended not to say about cleaning without topaz because it is pain to write more lol. There are 2 ways to go: clean with topaz and without topaz. You can notice there is no cleaning error (pattern looks good) and every image has same size (width and height), it means it is digital. There are many kind of digital, not all of them are good but most are good.

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