Sattva Descreen -- the descreening Photoshop plug-in that saved my sanity.

I've been working on a museum exhibition which features a lot of illustrations taken from printed books, which of course are riddled with screen patterns. I know that scanners usually do have a descreen feature, but we've got a fussy all-in-one attached to a positively ancient beast, so I was never able to get ours to work.

If it weren't for this plug-in, I'd be lost. I tried so many different methods to try and remove the patterns and everything ended up in a blurry mess that just decimated the details of the illustration. Found this, and even scaling down the image to the 2000px max on the demo version worked miracles. I thought I'd share it here just in case anyone else finds themselves working from newspaper images or scanned images and needs a break.

Here's the before and after (well...after and before) of one of the illustrations I used. And here's a link to the plugin webpage.