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Need Help with Old to New Backgrounds


Nana

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Hello, Everyone!
I have just recently begun doing some volunteer work and am using PS for the first time. For the project I am working on, I have been taught a lot of the basics for which we will be using PS but I have come across a problem that I'm not sure is a PS issue or if it is a scanning issue. I am working with black and white pen and ink drawings that are on aged card stock in a 9x12 size that are then scanned and moved to a new page with measurements of 5.5 x 7.25. When I move all of the images to the new page, I then lasso and move each individual image amongst the page-full of images to arrange them in an eye-appealing design. The scanned overall image seems to carry with it a greenish shadowing so each item that I lasso and transfer to a different location on the new page has a green halo around it. I've tried numerous options and, so far, I'm not able to achieve the totally white background that I would like to have. If I continue the way I have been doing it so far, I fear that my mouse hand will freeze in the position it takes to paint out every sighting of the green halo around each item that was moved. Could this be an issue that can be cleared up by changing scanning settings or is there a way to use the eyedropper and paint bucket to whiten up the background of the scanned original before moving the drawings over to the new document? Thank you, in advance, for any answers you can give me.
Nana
 

MikeMc

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What format are the scanned images saved in ? jpeg, bit maps?
 

ibclare

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I agree with the above questions. I wonder if going to select>select color range and clicking on the various green pixels would allow you to delete them. You would have to zoom in pretty close when you make the selection since there will be pixels of varying ranges. Hold th shift key as you add them. Using the dropdown menu in the color range selection window and choosing green might work even better. Give it a try. If tihs doesn't work, then please answer the above questions.

It would be a lot better to conquer the problem before you have to fix it. Big timesaver. But without more info, it's hard to say what the issue might be.
 

Nana

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Sorry. Didn't think about doing that. We are scanning pages of pen and ink drawings of orchid plants. Attached is my scan of scanned document AFTER I have moved individual flower sections over to new page.

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Nana

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Mike, when I scan these documents, they are saved in both PS and jpeg formats. I'm beginning to think that changing the scanner's settings might be the answer to the problem we're having. Thanks!!
 

Nana

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"It would be a lot better to conquer the problem before you have to fix it. Big timesaver. But without more info, it's hard to say what the issue might be." This is exactly why I'm trying to figure this part out. In the end, there will be more than 50 of these pages being done for a publication and I sure don't want to be stuck doing the cleanup on all 50+ pages if not needed. I'll be trying out the scanner preference selections tomorrow to see if it can be corrected from there. Getting it good at the start seems to be my smartest move at this point. Thank you!
 

hawkeye

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First off it's not just green also blue and cyan. But since you don't want color, I changed it to grayscale then used a levels adjustment.
 

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Nana

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That's what I've been playing around with, Guru. Since the greenish hue is being pulled over from the scanned original, though, should I use the layers option on the original or wait till I drag it all over to the new page and do the layers option on the new one? Thank you so much for the help!
 

Nana

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Hawkeye - if it had been a possibility, I would have reached through my computer today and pulled you out of it and planted a big kiss on your cheek for helping me out with this project!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, etc. It worked!! Now that that part of the process has been fixed, I should be able to begin cranking out these new pages in no time flat! Thank you, once again. Sorry if I embarrassed you but you have no idea how many hours I've already spent on this before finding this site. Now I know where to go whenever I hit a snag.
Nana
 

hawkeye

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Glad it worked for you. By the way it takes much more than that to embarrass me.
 

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