I am very grateful for any advice anyone would care to offer!!!
Hi!
As already mentioned, there are several ways to correct such things. To equalize
the brightness levels you could use my tutorial here:
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/equalize-homogenize-brightness
After that you'll get
I hurriedly photographed the text in a greeting card and have uneven lighting
and underexposure that I'd like to correct. Please see attachment, in which I've
increased the brightness and contrast and then desaturated. This helps but it
needs lots more!
I've looked at tutorials on gradient