Anyone get rid of crows foot texture on wall, not the eyes?

I’ve never tried to cover that type of texture but I’ve had rental properties that have had very rough walls.

I’ve hired drywallers and they’ve been able to smooth everything out by doing a skim coat on the walls. Basically they use some kind of joint compound to cover everything.

Since they had the knowledge, skills and tools we always hire out rather than diy.

I have seen rollers that you can buy to change or add texture to your walls. They come in multiple patterns and look just like a rubber paint roller. I think the process is to apply a skim coat to your wall and then go over it with one of these rollers. Either that, or the roller itself both applies and creates the pattern. I’m sure the directions would describe how they are used. I considered doing this in one of the bathrooms in my previous home. It had been wallpapered and I hired a guy to remove the wallpaper.

I don’t know what his deal was, but he screwed up the wall, taking chunks of the wallboard off with the wallpaper. It was like they used the wrong glue to install the wallpaper. But the guy that I hired to remove it was the same guy that had installed it several years before when it was a popular thing to do. He said he would fix the walls and just did a skim coat and then painted the wall. There was no texture on the wall and it looked awful. I considered buying one of the rollers and doing it myself. Instead, I hired it out and he brought in a spray machine and just put knock down on the walls to match the rest of the house. I know they make aerosol cans that you can use, but those are more for repairs and would be really costly to do a whole wall.