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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    Hi

    thanks for posting the example

    to be honest if you have a lot of this sort of work to do then it would be worth looking at photoshop elements [trial version available - though there is a problem downloading from adobe I believe until July 1st]

    one click in one of the affected areas with magic eraser ['contiguous' setting unticked] will turn all the affected areas transparent both with within and without of the letters - then a second click with the paint bucket tool [also 'contiguous' unticked plus foreground setting white] in one of the transparent areas will turn all of them white

    if the areas of coloration vary significantly - it will be that much more work, whichever way you end up doing it - still worth looking at photoshop elements I would have thought, just end up doing more passes whichever program you use

    David has covered the equivalent in PSP

    it would be worth looking at the scanner settings too if there is more of this work to do
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    Even if the inside colors vary significantly, PSP can often do the job in one pass--it is simply a matter of finding an appropriate base color and tolerance.
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    yes

    but it can take time to do that

    I tried it in PS/E with the 'contiguous' unticked and white foreground colour set, and rest of settings on default, and it just did it - four clicks job done - no faf

    this is PSP forum - I am not saying do not use it - I am saying if there is loads to do, photoshop will likely be quicker in the long run
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    just as a further example of what I mean - I stuck some rough and ready color variation in here - the only difference was that it needed four clicks with the magic eraser, still with same settings
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    Hi David,

    Thank you so much. I'm going to try those today. I appreciate all the help.
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    It isn't worth the cost of a new program. PSP works fine.

    Ctrl-A, Selections->Modify->Select color range, pick black with a tolerance of 188, softness of 1, hit 'Delete', and you are done (as long as your background color is set to white). With your example, you still have to fill in the pixels you modified.
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    good solution David
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    good solution David
    So again, *please* stop giving recommendations about things you don't know. It is obvious that you haven't extensively done this task in PSP, and you were recommending that coffeemom buy another program because *you* knew how to do it in that program. That is completely irresponsible--pretending to be an expert when you aren't.

    If you insist on taking that approach, at least say it something like: "I haven't done much of this in PSP, but in PSE you can do it in such and such a manner quite easily..." Let them know what you know, so that they aren't tempted to spend money when they don't have to.

    *Please!*
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    that is not the point David

    it would be quicker in photoshop - because you would not have to experiment with the settings - it would 'just do it'
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    Default Re: Restoring Old Books & Magazines

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    it would be quicker in photoshop - because you would not have to experiment with the settings...
    You failed to mention that you need to play with the 'tolerance' in your PS solution, so your statement is incorrect. You have to mess with settings in both programs. And, as in PSE, once you have the appropriate settings in PSP, you don't have to enter them again until you come across a new challenge. And in PSP, you can save the setting--I don't believe you can do that in PSE (but I may be wrong).

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