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How to change background color of a scanned image?
Is there anyway to change the background color of scanned imaged? For example, I scanned in an image from sheet a paper that was geyish color. I want to extract the image and change the background color to white. I have Macromedia Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro 7.0 and publisher. Will either of these software programs work for this function?
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BillDL
Whoops, not PsP 7.1. I meant 7.0.
Actually, just reading your question again, there's something that might need to be discussed. You said that you "scanned in an image from sheet a paper that was geyish color". Does this mean that you scanned something like a full A4 page, and therefore have a lot of grey?
When scanning, the Twain Interface from the scanner software should allow you to select a specific section (rectangle) of the page you are scanning, and then choose to scan it at 100% (ie. same size as that selected portion), or to reduce it or enlarge it. The scanner will only scan the selected area and generate an image from it rather than scanning the whole page.
If you have already scanned the whole page, just open it in PsP and use the "Crop" tool to select only the image, and then crop it to that selection.
If you already know all this, then just disregard it. I'm not sure how much experience you have with using a scanner.
When scanning, the Twain Interface from the scanner software should allow you to select a specific section (rectangle) of the page you are scanning, and then choose to scan it at 100% (ie. same size as that selected portion), or to reduce it or enlarge it. The scanner will only scan the selected area and generate an image from it rather than scanning the whole page.
If you have already scanned the whole page, just open it in PsP and use the "Crop" tool to select only the image, and then crop it to that selection.
If you already know all this, then just disregard it. I'm not sure how much experience you have with using a scanner.
Hmmm. There aren't too many other contributing experts to dispute your recommendation, so I will second it :-)
Thank you mrichmon and GranMod