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Pre-filtering on bright areas


Take a look at the raw (#1), the bright area on the image hasn't details, but there are ugly paper_texture & bleed_through.
I reduce them with a grayscale mask in the first editing process.

First, duplicate background layer then apply a filter to the whole image (#2)

Next, add a mask and apply back ground grayscale mask not to effect on shadow areas (#3)

Finally, lower gamma of the mask not to effect on mid tone areas (#4)

#5 shows only filtered area.

This masking technique is my basis, and I'm using this type of masks on the almost filtering process.