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Offline Runnicus

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How can I clean up old documents and censuses?
« 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

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Re: How can I clean up old documents and censuses?
« Reply #1 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
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Cheshire B.M.Ds

Victory Cornwall
Thomas Cheshire
Lobb Cornwall/Hampshire
Croft Cheshire
Mitchell Birkenhead/Portsea/Portland
Fenn Essex
Shone Cheshire
Atherton Liverpool

FOR RESTORATIONS PLEASE SCAN ALL PICS AT 300-600
AND IN COLOUR, EVEN IF BLACK AND WHITE

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Re: How can I clean up old documents and censuses?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 07 April 13 12:26 BST (UK) »
Do a search on Youtube there will no doubt be some videos there to help ..
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