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Title: Photoshop help? (Need to bring black levels up)
Post by: Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B) on November 09, 2011, 06:33:58 PM

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/sloppyart/test1.jpg)

I'd like to try to bring up the printing in this scan.

Any tips on how to do this? I'm guessing I need to select the color of the printing and then boost it somehow. Just don't know how to do that.

I just want this to be readable. I'm not trying to restore it to it's original glory.

Title: Re: Photoshop help? (Need to bring black levels up)
Post by: adrianf74 on November 09, 2011, 07:35:47 PM

Quote from: Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B) on November 09, 2011, 06:33:58 PM

I'd like to try to bring up the printing in this scan.

Any tips on how to do this? I'm guessing I need to select the color of the printing and then boost it somehow. Just don't know how to do that.

I just want this to be readable. I'm not trying to restore it to it's original glory.

Try playing with the levels in the lighting section.  You might want to bring blacks WAY UP in order to bring back the text; you'll have to watch how it affects the rest of the image, however.

Title: Re: Photoshop help? (Need to bring black levels up)
Post by: runonce on November 09, 2011, 10:02:14 PM

If all else fails - Iron it! - the heat might make it legible again...or make it worse YMMV...

I recently found a stub while doing a big clean up...to the eye, it was blank...a few strokes of the lighter revealed "FURTHUR 98" - my one and only post-jerry adventure...and well worth forgetting...now ash.