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hi there!
I'm new to this forum, been searching advices from here & via google for my photoshop/indesign challenges but here's one that I couldn't figure out.
I have scanned B&W article, which includes basic-text but underneath the text there's sort of like "headline" in large grey letters. I'm doing a scrapbook with custom size and cropping & re-fitting the original article leads to a situation where grey text is scattered. It looks un-professional and I want to be able to remove the whole grey "headline-text-part".
Sample:
Here's also a zoomed in sample of the situation.
So like said before I'd like to remove all the grey areas (large text), but save background + text. There must be a way to take a sample (tried "patterns" -> didnt succeed) of the grey area and then do some sort of "removal" for the whole greay area...?
I guess this is rather "special" case and I wasn't able to use common removal tools...Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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First it should be clear what you're dealing with. You have printed text, and then you have a halftone screen printed on the same plate and with the same ink. So color-wise, these two can't be separated. It's just a difference in scale.
You could try to run aggressive noise reduction on a duplicate layer to get rid of the halftone screen. Make a selection from that layer - but use the selection on the original layer. It would probably reduce the quality of the text you want to keep.
An alternative approach is to downsample a copy to the point where the halftone screen disappears, then upsample back to the original size. Again make a selection to use on the original.
I've no idea if this would work. Others may have better ideas.

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