black to white

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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.

Chuck Uebele

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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.

rickk30290064Author

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Mask or blend. I need to make that mean something

Trevor.Dennis

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I’m learning about masking right now. That’s where I think the secret lies. Nothing anyone has suggested so far has worked. I used to do this. What’s different?

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Rick, check my post above that tells you how to share the full sized version.

The document tab shows us your screen shot was zoomed to 25%, so we only got a low res version.

Ctrl A

Ctrl C

Back to this thread and Ctrl V

Easy peasy. I think we'll get a really good result with a lot more pixels.

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