Working with black & white photos in PS 5.5

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odatddon
Jun 1, 2006
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I’m a beginner user of PS 5.5 and attempting to scan old black and white photos with an HP 6200 series scanner.

Good B&Ws end up being much to dark when brought up in PS or printed.

Does anyone have a quick fix for this so I don’t have to slug my way thru all of PS to trey and learn what needs to be done?

Thanks for all positive suggestions.

Don
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Mike Hyndman
Jun 2, 2006
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I’m a beginner user of PS 5.5 and attempting to scan old black and white photos with an HP 6200 series scanner.

Good B&Ws end up being much to dark when brought up in PS or printed.
Does anyone have a quick fix for this so I don’t have to slug my way thru all of PS to trey and learn what needs to be done?

Thanks for all positive suggestions.
Don,

This sounds like another calibration problem.

One way (of many) to adjust your image would be to use the Levels command (Image>Adjustments>Levels or Ctrl+L) You will be presented with a graph showing the distribution of the light/dark pixels. If your image is dark, then the graph will be weighted to the left. Under the graph’s base line are three up pointing triangles. Try clicking on and sliding the right hand one to the left to lighten your image (make sure preview is checked). You could also try setting the black and white points using the eyedropper tools at the bottom right of the dialogue box. The right hand one is the white set point, click on this and click in an area of your image that you know should be white, then do the same for the black set point (choose a part you know should be black). You can ignore the middle one (grey point). You can undo any changes before commiting them by alt+clicking on the cancel button.

MH

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