Is there a tool to sample a photos texture and apply to another photo ?

Question

Hi,
I am bringing into an old photo which is in fact a scan of a printed photo, an item selected from a recently taken photo and I need it to look as if it belongs to the old photo.
The immediate difference is in the texture, best shown with a photo here. try viewing it also by moving head laft and right !  I can even see a regular pattern of something within the cruder pixels. I could take days to try out various filters, it may be it requires a combination of filters and given the variables involved the chances of hitting upon the right settings and the right filters is remote and it would take days. Is there a way of sampling the recipient photo and then applying the effect it sees to the cleaner looking modern photo ?
I come across this situation all the time when one photo, even a modern digicamera one, taken by someone else, differs from another photo, unless the 'textures' can be made to match, the added in pics stick out like a sore thumb !  A photo with jpg artefacts receiving a cleaner photo is one common occurrence, try geting the cleaner one to look very jpegged, not easy.
With all of Adobes gizmos something like this 'texture match'  is high priority for such basic tasks.
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Answer 1

Hi and thanks for the replies.
C.pfaffenbichler
This has gotten a bit confusing with trying to merge two techniques following the define pattern edit you added.
Talking this through as a step by step, is this the way ?
1) on source image for pattern, use selection tool and make a selection of the pattern. You say rectangular, Trevor says square, which one  matters and why ?  It seems that I have to try and find an area of uniform colour to select, what if its an odd shape ?    Trevor says use an area with an even tone, what if such an area is smaller than the image I need to 'pattern up'
I then went edit copy and edit paste and get a new layer with the pattern rectangle.
Having done this, is this the isolating pattern stage , I think so.
If I follow your suggestion of  Define Pattern, I find myself following Trevors idea of making a SQUARE selection and ending up with a bucket tool set to the pattern I just defined, then to see this through, else why do it in the first place,  I dump the bucket onto a new layer and end up with a screen full of a repeating squares where I can see differences at the edges as opposed to a perfect wallpaper of the pattern..  Far more than I ned and a danger of getting the edge across my recipient image.
Ignoring that define pattern and continuing…
2) With this isolated pattern of just one rectangle on a new layer, I go Filters>other and choose High Pass filter…you say use a rectangular part of it, I don’t see how high pass filter can decide on a shape ? I also don’t understand the offset filter instructions at all and clone stamping over the borders.
3) Ignoring the offset and clone stamp, I then position the layer with pattern over my recipient image and choose blend mode linear light and reduce the opacity of the layer.
4) I then see the effect I am after though its happening to the original image behind the recipient object also, so I guess I shal have to use the recipient image and make a channel from it then use that to chop out the pattern outside of the image or simply go round with the eraser.
Is there a way of applying the pattern to the image other than erasing away the areas outside of the image ?
  Your way certainly picks up on the repeat pattern I see,Trevors didnt work so well. . Is it aimed at seeing that fine flecking in my image or also aimed at replicating the mix of colours that make up the colour as well ?  I have tried to use Noise filter to turn a new colour I make into one looking like its a photograph, as we all know that uniform areas of colour placed in a photo look false, but I can never get noise to match the pixel colours of the photo, again is this technique best for that job ?
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