line removal

[Antelope]

Hi. I'm new to Affinity, currently assessing and considering switching away from Acdsee.

I don't know if it's possible to efficiently do what I need to do:
 

Attached are 4 pics of two images. A zoom and a whole image for context.

Each of the two images has clack lines separating areas of tone. Image 1, the lines are very fine and in Image 2, they're mostly bolder and thicker.

Is there a good way of removing these lines? I would then either replace them with nice lines drawn using bezier curves, or alternatively, if there's a good way, seek to butt each adjacent tonal area up together.

Thanks for any help
David

[Hangman]

Hi @Antelope and welcome to the forums,

Are your files currently raster or vector?

[Antelope]

Raster. They're both TIF files, 9000 pixels longest edge. Sorry, should have said.

[Antelope]

Actually I may have found out how to do this. I've been messing about with Frequency Separation. I have no idea what this is or what it's doing (so need to find out) but it's given me a result. A bit soft, especially image 2, but I ran the result through Topaz Sharpen and really, I can't grumble about this.

I must have spent three days in total fannying about with clone brush in Acdsee and getting awful results.

[Antelope]

Results. Im2 needs some further cleaning but I'm not complaining.

[Alfred]

54 minutes ago, Antelope said:

I've been messing about with Frequency Separation. I have no idea what this is or what it's doing (so need to find out) but it's given me a result.

Affinity Photo 2 Help: Frequency separation