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Trying to darken an image


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I am trying to darken an image, All it is.....is an image of a typed report. Because some of the typing is faded, I want to darken it. I was able to do this with most pages in the report by selecting Enhance then Adjust Lighting then Brightness/Contrast and sliding the little triangle indicator to the left. As you do this, the typed print gets darker. Then I would press OK and it stayed dark. But with two of these pages in the report, when I slide the little triangle to make the print darker, it works until I press OK at which point it goes back to being its original faded way.

Any suggestions?
 
dv8_fx said:
Welcome, bgreid.

I don't understand "2 pages in the report"... you mean 2 pages in the image layer?
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Hi...keep in mind that I am a computer beginner.

I'm not sure what a layer is. The report has about 50 pages but I only opened one at a time. All the others that needed to have the print darkened worked fine. But these two pages will not do so.
 
bgreid said:
I am trying to darken an image, All it is.....is an image of a typed report. Because some of the typing is faded, I want to darken it. I was able to do this with most pages in the report by selecting Enhance then Adjust Lighting then Brightness/Contrast and sliding the little triangle indicator to the left. As you do this, the typed print gets darker. Then I would press OK and it stayed dark. But with two of these pages in the report, when I slide the little triangle to make the print darker, it works until I press OK at which point it goes back to being its original faded way.

Any suggestions?
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Hello,
what if you select the text and try to darken only the text. And there is no error message I suppose.
Best regards,
Peter
 
Just from what I am hearing you could select the faded words and then go to your brightness settings and make them darker.

EDIT: I am sure if you uploaded it someone here would be more than happy to assist you.
 
vampiremcmuffin said:
Just from what I am hearing you could select the faded words and then go to your brightness settings and make them darker.

EDIT: I am sure if you uploaded it someone here would be more than happy to assist you.
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Can a person with two posts upload file ?

BTW very nice avatar :-)
 
Hello,
everything what Photoshop can handle is allowed ;-) Seriously, I do not know how you got those pdf's but they have some properties of their own, sometimes restricting changes, you should be able to see it in file properties menu, could you check those two compared to the others ?
Thank you,
Peter
 
peta62 said:
Hello,
everything what Photoshop can handle is allowed ;-) Seriously, I do not know how you got those pdf's but they have some properties of their own, sometimes restricting changes, you should be able to see it in file properties menu, could you check those two compared to the others ?
Thank you,
Peter
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The thing is that this is a report with a whole bunch of pages. Only two of them won't allow me to make this change.
 
Steve said:
You can post images from your computer in your 1st post.You can't post links right away

bgreid, if it's black text on white paper convert the image to grayscale then try a levels adjustment instead.

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Like I said earlier, I am a beginner and don't know how to convert an image to grayscale. Any help is welcomed.
 
dv8_fx said:
Go to MENU>IMAGE>MODE>GRAYSCALE....

Message .... DISCARD COLOR INFORMATION? click discard.

viola.... grayscale image....
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Being in grayscale does not help. I changed it from a PDF to a JPG using photoshop but it won't make it darker. When I go Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Brightness/Contrast with the JPG image, when I move the brightness triangle to the left, there is no change. However, if I tick off preview, it does get darker as I move the triangle but when I click OK, it goes back to the way it was originally.
 
Where you viewing the document at normal view and not zoomed in when you used the threshold? Sometimes at normal view, turning off the preview makes the documant look darker. And even if turned on, the threshold effect looks like it didn't work when you click OK but it actually did its work.
 


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