I work for an architects office and one of them wants to scan all the elevations plans he's done. He'd also like to have the grain of the very thin vellum-like paper show, and wants the whole image to show the yellow tone you see in some areas. I don't know why the scan only colors some sections like the floor plan but the paper is originally a sort of parchment tint paper throughout; I have to scan with a white sheet of paper behind.
Is there a way that I could replicate the texture/tint in print and for the web? I've tried a few things but no luck.
Note that the image is a portion of a 22x30" scan at 600 dpi; the plotter/scanner only saves PDFs, which I then convert to TIFF.
Thanks ahead for tips/comments.
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In this particular case, with such a light background, you can take a different approach to the usual colour tinting methods. Juat place a layer 'beneath' your drawing, fill it with the colour of you choice, and set your drawing layer to Multiply. Note I masked off half your draing so you can see the before and after
[EDIT] Thinking about this, if you wanted a pale colour behind your drawing, then Multiply would not work as well. Blend if would fix that though
Without knowing the goal exactly....You can try something like this in ACR and tweak things as needed
You can also create a gradient map. The Marching ants selection is the original, and the rest is set to match that.
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