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Sonic Max
Joined: 01 May 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: Select Color?...Replace Color? |
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Crew,
Scanned in a black & white cartoon logo created by a deceased friend; & wanted to clean up the page fade. It was drawn in an old ledger; & most of the area (both inside & outside the image) which was once white, is now almost of a parchment hue (beige to light tan.)
I turned it into a grayscale image in Photoshop (6); & it cleaned up a lot...but some of the darker aged areas turned to an ash gray in the process.
So I'm thinking...is there a way to select just the parchment colored pixels; & turn them to white?
I was trying to mess with the Replace Color dialog...but can't figure it out (& my help files don't work anymore in XP...they won't load in the browser.)
My alternative is to zoom in all the way & use the Eraser tool...but the logo is so damn detailed it would take months.
Need some guidance on this one.
Thanks,
Sonic Max
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Posts: 962
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In your original image (which I guess is RGB?) look at the three RGB channels and see if one looks cleaner. (Maybe the Red channel if you want to minimize a “parchment” color?)
Select the channel that looks best before converting to grayscale. Then maybe just tweaking levels will do it.
You could also try using Channel Mixer set to Monochrome to check various BW combos of Channels.
Also... try setting the Dodge Tool to "Highlights", this lets you "erase" lighter tones while not affecting darker ones.
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Sonic Max
Joined: 01 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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cbadland,
Thanks. Will try all.
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