# Feature Request | Halftone Descreening **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas\ **Tags:** reviewed\ **Created:** [March 14, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566 "2023-03-14T15:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vidosick](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/65b543/32.png) [@Vidosick](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Vidosick)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/1 "2023-03-14T15:21:01Z")
It would be good to add this feature for newspaper and old photo scans. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![somogyiandras](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/somogyiandras/32/36459_2.png) [@somogyiandras](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/somogyiandras)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/2 "2023-03-14T20:07:43Z")
Since the Pattern Suppressor doesn’t work on M1 macs without alternative It’s a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![steve.summers](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@steve.summers](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/steve.summers)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/3 "2023-10-30T22:21:43Z")
This is such a common problem with images we have to work with as graphics professionals, I’m a little surprised this halftone descreening, and repeating pattern removal problem has not been tackled head-on as a perfect category of image clean-up for AI to fix. Calculations have to be applied to images to produce the halftone rosetta for everything from newspapers to magazines, whether black and white (one color), or other scenarios such as screen printing, and special duo-tone and tri-tone (etc.) effects. Many times this is the only artwork available to start from for various projects for customers. A software solution which applied AI to reversing the process is what I originally was searching for to resolve this issue for me, rather than trying to approximate it by blurring, and then trying to apply sharpening of one form or another to get something usable. Please take Photo AI and/or Denoise AI in this direction as one of the options of types of photos which can be fixed. The ability to take a halftone image back to a contone image would be extremely helpful to so many people, of course myself included. I have a project right now, and repeatedly have projects which need this. ---
**Author:** ![mani.sheriar](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/mani.sheriar/32/143698_2.png) [@mani.sheriar](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/mani.sheriar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/4 "2024-01-28T17:20:18Z")
I couldn’t agree more! ---
**Author:** ![john.topazlabs](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/john.topazlabs/32/160721_2.png) [@john.topazlabs](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/john.topazlabs)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/5 "2024-01-28T18:24:45Z")
Thanks for the idea and suggestion! Make sure that you do not forget to vote for your idea 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gingraspierre](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e99b99/32.png) [@gingraspierre](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/gingraspierre)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/6 "2024-04-12T19:28:12Z")
Most family scanned picture are just grainy and that is easyly solved with Topaz. But some professional prints end with a «screeny» texture that noise-reduction cannot eliminate. Would be great to have that additionnal feature. ![2CARO14M](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/7/7/775554fb4e9d475a170c878b189debd20ed04989.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/andymagee-52287/32/102446_2.png) [@andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/andymagee-52287)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/7 "2024-04-12T20:18:56Z")
My solution to problems like this is to down size first to blend the screen patterns, then upsize typically turns out okay. ---
**Author:** ![peter.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@peter.simpson](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/peter.simpson)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/8 "2024-06-03T01:59:32Z")
Yes please ---
**Author:** ![ChrisP](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@ChrisP](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/ChrisP)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/9 "2025-02-03T18:39:07Z")
Agreed! ---
**Author:** ![AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/and-e/32/215196_2.png) [@AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/AND-E)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/10 "2025-02-03T19:20:37Z")
Hi. The Pattern Suppressor has since been updated and the latest version does indeed now work with all M chips Here’s the link again Pattern Suppressor tutorial v2 > **[Photoshop pattern remover!](http://ft.rognemedia.no/)** > > Free plugins/actions to easily remove periodically repeating patterns 😃. Hope this helps ---
**Author:** ![AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/and-e/32/215196_2.png) [@AND-E](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/AND-E)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/11 "2025-02-03T19:24:59Z")
Please read my reply to somogyiandras ---
**Author:** ![somogyiandras](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/somogyiandras/32/36459_2.png) [@somogyiandras](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/somogyiandras)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/12 "2025-02-03T20:48:24Z")
Hi, Thank you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![phon.o808](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c2a13f/32.png) [@phon.o808](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/phon.o808)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/13 "2023-05-24T19:31:23Z")
Hi Guys, I love Photo AI, but I am often not satisfied with Remove Noise. It would be great to recognise and remove noise of old photos or video stills that have this “cloudy” noise artefacts. It would be also great to add a Descreen function to remove print halftone patterns. Thanks. Best Carsten ---
**Author:** ![preston.werner](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/preston.werner/32/107856_2.png) [@preston.werner](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/preston.werner)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/14 "2023-05-30T14:53:41Z")
Hi Carsten, thanks for your feedback – unfortuantely, Topaz Photo AI has only been trained to work with photographs from modern digital cameras, and has not been designed to work on film scans or scans of printwork. This may change in the future, but right now this is not a case that we intended our software to be compatible with. ---
**Author:** ![walter.bobrowski](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@walter.bobrowski](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/walter.bobrowski)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/15 "2023-05-31T01:01:13Z")
The new Noise Removal Strong v2 (beta) option completely removes moire screening (due to scan of old photo with textured surface). The setting needs to be adjusted manually to final optimal removal point. It’s utterly amazing. No more Fast Fourier Tranforms! ![Screenshot 2023-05-25 210709](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/e/4/e45e6da89c9ede5fa37591ee4ea7b6cd8f5f0e4b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![phon.o808](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c2a13f/32.png) [@phon.o808](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/phon.o808)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/16 "2023-06-02T12:16:50Z")
Hi Preston, thanks for your reply. Ok I understand. but what would be also awesome is to try to optimise hands as well. Very often the photos i enhance have terrible hands. I know its the hardes for AI to fix them but there are new models out there that can fix that a way better. Thanks and keep up the great work. love your software best Carsten ---
**Author:** ![phon.o808](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c2a13f/32.png) [@phon.o808](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/phon.o808)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/17 "2023-06-02T12:18:29Z")
ok cool. will try this. its just often tooo smooth on the skins. ---
**Author:** ![lysa.schloesser](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@lysa.schloesser](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/lysa.schloesser)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/18 "2023-06-22T01:17:14Z")
Hi Walter - you mentioned that “the new Noise Removal Strong v2 (beta) option completely removes moire screening” and I wondered if that was in the Photoshop Beta v2? Could you share your settings? Thanks, Lysa ---
**Author:** ![walter.bobrowski](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@walter.bobrowski](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/walter.bobrowski)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/19 "2023-06-22T13:36:03Z")
Lysa, not Photoshop. Topaz Photo AI. It’s not automatic. You will need to activate the Remove Noise function. The beta I referred to earlier has now been incorporated into the latest update. Within the Remove Noise function, select Stong. Then under Strength, slowly increase the strength until the moire patterning is gone. I achieved this for my particular photo patterning at a value of “26”. If you go too high you will introduce other artifacts. It will take some time to find the optimal Strength setting. Also I had another image badly corrupted with patterning that did require a quick pass with an FFT function (using GIMP) followed up with what I just described. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![lysa.schloesser](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@lysa.schloesser](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/lysa.schloesser)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566/20 "2023-06-24T18:49:39Z")
Hi Walter! Thanks so much for your fast response. I haven’t had the time to try out your tips; hopefully this weekend. I read somewhere that PhotoAI is really only for digital photos - have you experienced that? Seems to me that if you can make the tweaks you suggested that it isn’t true. Best, Lysa [Next page](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/feature-request-halftone-descreening/41566.md?page=2)