Re: [Gimp-user] making a faded handwritten letter legible

2019-05-19 Thread Ofnuts
On 5/5/19 9:03 PM, samkirk wrote: I have 2400 dpi images that were scanned of a 19th-century handwritten letter and they are very faded. I am wondering what to adjust in GIMP to try and make them more legible. Any help is appreciated. Attachments: *

Re: [Gimp-user] making a faded handwritten letter legible

2019-05-19 Thread Dwain Alford via gimp-user-list
do you have the letter? can you have it re-scanned? can you be there to manipulate the dpi and contrast? if the answers are no, then i guess rich404's answer, "Nothing you can do with that (except guess), will have to suffice. On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:07 PM samkirk wrote: > I have 2400 dpi

[Gimp-user] making a faded handwritten letter legible

2019-05-18 Thread rich404
>I have 2400 dpi images that were scanned of a 19th-century handwritten >letter and they are very faded. I am wondering what to adjust in GIMP >to try and make them more legible. Any help is appreciated. Is the sample the same format as the original scanned image? The sample is an indexed 1 bit

[Gimp-user] making a faded handwritten letter legible

2019-05-18 Thread G2Vicoigne
>I have 2400 dpi images that were scanned of a 19th-century handwritten >letter and they are very faded. I am wondering what to adjust in GIMP >to try and make them more legible. Any help is appreciated. Hi here is a link that can be useful but it is in French

[Gimp-user] making a faded handwritten letter legible

2019-05-18 Thread samkirk
I have 2400 dpi images that were scanned of a 19th-century handwritten letter and they are very faded. I am wondering what to adjust in GIMP to try and make them more legible. Any help is appreciated. Attachments: * https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1165/original/letter_sample.tif --