On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM, James for...@gimpusers.com wrote:
As further information on my project, I mention yellowing of the paper. It
would probably be more accurate to call it browning since, in some
instances, its shade can approach the same intensity of light pencil markings.
You
Hi. I have an elderly friend whose father kept a diary during WW2. The diary
is written in pencil on poor quality paper that has yellowed considerably with
age. The text is still pretty legible but as time passes it will become less
so. I decided I could photograph pages of the diary and enhance
On Thursday 05 March 2009, James wrote:
Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background
of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the pencil
text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to things
I can try under gimp that will help
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I'm not any kind of gimp power user or anything--I usually just feel my way
around the program and usually get it to do the fairly simple graphic
manipulations I want. So far, that method has not worked well for this
project. So I'd like to ask some tips here on accomplishing the goal
On Thursday 05 March 2009, James wrote:
Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background
of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the
pencil
text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to
things
I can try under gimp that will help
