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March 4, 2019
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black to white

  • March 4, 2019
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It must be incredibly easy.....

I have a program, a ballet program.  It lists all the dancers.  It is black text on white.  typical program publication.  I scanned it.  It is now on my machine.  All I want to do is convert the black to white and white background to transparent.  Yes I'm fully aware of the alpha channel. I have carefully followed instructions from YouTube tutorials.  No nothing works.  I have a tooth ache and a deadline.  WHy is this hard?  it can't be.

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    Correct answer Chuck Uebele

    Can you post your image? If you're working on a background layer, you do need to change that to a normal layer. I simple invert will change the text, and then either a mask or blend if sliders in the layer style will drop the bg.

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    Chuck Uebele
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    Chuck UebeleCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    March 4, 2019

    Can you post your image? If you're working on a background layer, you do need to change that to a normal layer. I simple invert will change the text, and then either a mask or blend if sliders in the layer style will drop the bg.

    rickk30290064
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    March 4, 2019

    Mask or blend. I need to make that mean something

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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    March 4, 2019


    Hi Rick

    Select the layer with the document

    Ctrl A to select all

    Ctrl C to copy.

    Come back to this thread, and Ctrl V to paste to  this thread.

    That will give us a full res version top work  with (your  screen shot is zoomed to just 25%)

    All I have done below is Ctrl i  to invert, and the text quality is not great.  There are ways to improve this sort of situation, but they are not going to work well with text.  Your best bet is to get it as clean as possible, and use optical character recognition to convert to a text file.  Our jane-e  is  one of the people who could advise on this.

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