Any way of getting rid of Ben-Day dots? As in, turning screentones to grayscale?

[MaxRavenclaw]

For example, turning something like this:

 

Into something like this:

 

But better, and maybe even taking the tone into account, but at least getting rid of the dots.

 

 

[AndrewDavid]

Hi @MaxRavenclaw Welcome.

Looks like this will do the trick. Remove the white with Magic wand - then run this plug in

 

Let us know if this works for you

 

[MaxRavenclaw]

That works reasonably well. Used a color killer plugin though. Magic wand isn't sensitive enough. Better than selecting the outline and removing everything else, but still not perfect.

 

I wish I'd remember which post it was I had recently read about something like this. They advised using median blur, and some plugin that I ultimately traced down to gmic for gimp, but I can't seem to find the thread here.

[MaxRavenclaw]

Doing it manually isn't really possible when you're working with far bigger images. I was hoping there's a faster way, but I guess not.

 

No chance for a plugin that actually colours stuff a shade of grey depending on the density of the dots then

 

still, thanks for the advice

Edited November 14, 2018 by MaxRavenclaw

[BoltBait]

To get the right shade, you could use Effects > Blurs > Gaussian blur. 

 

Of course, you’ll lose all your sharp edges. So this will be a challenge. 

 

(You'd have st select all areas you want to be shaded first.)

 

[MaxRavenclaw]

I wish paint.net would offer more ways to control selections. I certainly miss GIMP's line select tool, and a grow selection option would also be nice. I don't think plugins can offer that though.