White areas not white/converting scanned images

Allan

Some time ago I scanned a book (it's like a comic/coloring book). I've
since realized I used the wrong settings in the scanner software.

The scanner has a few settings, one is "photo quality" and another is
"color drawing." When I use "color drawing", all white areas on a
page print totally white/blank. But because I scanned using the photo
setting, all white areas print a light grayish mess, made up of all
colors. This of course means every page prints with ink on 100%
coverage of the page.

Does anyone know, is it possible to convert the scanned images with
software, so that the white areas print blank again?

Thanks for reading...

Allan

Bernie

On 5/23/2006 4:23 AM, Allan wrote:
> Some time ago I scanned a book (it's like a comic/coloring book). I've
> since realized I used the wrong settings in the scanner software.
>
> The scanner has a few settings, one is "photo quality" and another is
> "color drawing." When I use "color drawing", all white areas on a
> page print totally white/blank. But because I scanned using the photo
> setting, all white areas print a light grayish mess, made up of all
> colors. This of course means every page prints with ink on 100%
> coverage of the page.
>
> Does anyone know, is it possible to convert the scanned images with
> software, so that the white areas print blank again?
>
> Thanks for reading...
>
> Allan

Sure. The degree of simplicity or difficulty will depend on how uniform
the gray areas are, and how different they are from the colors that are
supposed to be in the picture. Photoshop Elements is a reasonably
priced program that is easy to use and will probably do what you want.

You can even try Irfanview to see if it will help. It is worth having
anyway, and it's free. irfanview.com.

Bernie

Allan

On Tue, 23 May 2006 17:39:40 -0500, Bernie <bernie@notreally.com>
wrote:

>On 5/23/2006 4:23 AM, Allan wrote:
>> Some time ago I scanned a book (it's like a comic/coloring book). I've
>> since realized I used the wrong settings in the scanner software.
>>
>> The scanner has a few settings, one is "photo quality" and another is
>> "color drawing." When I use "color drawing", all white areas on a
>> page print totally white/blank. But because I scanned using the photo
>> setting, all white areas print a light grayish mess, made up of all
>> colors. This of course means every page prints with ink on 100%
>> coverage of the page.
>>
>> Does anyone know, is it possible to convert the scanned images with
>> software, so that the white areas print blank again?
>>
>> Thanks for reading...
>>
>> Allan
>
>Sure. The degree of simplicity or difficulty will depend on how uniform
>the gray areas are, and how different they are from the colors that are
>supposed to be in the picture. Photoshop Elements is a reasonably
>priced program that is easy to use and will probably do what you want.
>
>You can even try Irfanview to see if it will help. It is worth having
>anyway, and it's free. irfanview.com.
>
>Bernie

Thanks - I'll have a look at them.