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Title: How can I clean up old documents and censuses?
Post by: Runnicus on Sunday 07 April 13 11:19 BST (UK)

Good morning,

I've got Photoshop Elements 8 and can manage to do a simple clean and retouch on old family photos, but have had no luck with cleaning up census pages and documents.  Some have suffered from being badly filmed or digitised, some have faded ink and some have been badly photocopied by record offices.  Photoshop and other online help and/or tutorials seem to only advise on photographs. 

Has anyone found a website or - preferably - a book that gives clear and simple advice on working with documents in Photoshop?

Thanks, Runnicus

Title: Re: How can I clean up old documents and censuses?
Post by: alan m on Sunday 07 April 13 11:40 BST (UK)

Have you tried cropping so you have just census page then
Enhance.>Adjust lighting>Brightnes/contrast.
usually works for me with census pages, but some are a lot worse than others as you know.
Alan

Title: Re: How can I clean up old documents and censuses?
Post by: BlueUK on Sunday 07 April 13 12:26 BST (UK)

Do a search on Youtube there will no doubt be some videos there to help ..