Photo Retouching in LAB Color - Experiment

I ran into an interesting retouching problem - how to remove a dark logo that had formed over a texture I had scanned. I thought I'd record the process I used to remove the logo.

The texture I scanned was produced using Golden brand Gel Mediums Crackle Paste over Golden brand Black Gesso over an Ampersand Hardbord.

I used the side with the faintly printed logo thinking you'd never see it. Somehow the ink from the logo leeched up through the gesso and crackle paste to the point where it was clearly legible. I guess I should have also sealed the Hardboard with a primer, as the manufacturer advises. (Or just use the pristine side, although I had planned to be frugal and use both sides of every $5 board I bought.)

You can find the finished textures in 4k high resolution on my flickr account -
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/07/crackle_pattern.html

Category:

Education

Tags:

• photography
• retouching
• LAB color
• RGB color
• color space
• crackle paint
• texture
• texture map

[digitalArtform]

If you'd like the original, I'll race you. :)

[donnadohogne]

You could of easily just cloned out the logo and skipped all the other steps you did and it would worked just as well. :) Donna