Photocopying old browned paper schematics etc
Other than cleaning mirrors & lenses anyone any ideas on how to bring the
exposure level up to get black on light grey rather than black on almost equally dark black background. Anyone tried translucent thin but very white plastic sheet of some sort overlaying the original. ? Reducing the exposure masking increases the exposure but whites out the fine details. The paper has gone very brown from air bourne SO2/SO3 , neutralising the paper with alkali improves things but tends to lighten the black image so no further forward as far as contrast. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
Photocopying old browned paper schematics etc
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:06:54 -0000, "n cook"
wrote: Other than cleaning mirrors & lenses anyone any ideas on how to bring the exposure level up to get black on light grey rather than black on almost equally dark black background. Anyone tried translucent thin but very white plastic sheet of some sort overlaying the original. ? Reducing the exposure masking increases the exposure but whites out the fine details. The paper has gone very brown from air bourne SO2/SO3 , neutralising the paper with alkali improves things but tends to lighten the black image so no further forward as far as contrast. One way would be, to scan them into your PC and apply some kind of color filtering. May take some effort to get the right filter settings, but in the end you get 'as new' printouts :-) -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
Photocopying old browned paper schematics etc
n cook wrote: Other than cleaning mirrors & lenses anyone any ideas on how to bring the exposure level up to get black on light grey rather than black on almost equally dark black background. Anyone tried translucent thin but very white plastic sheet of some sort overlaying the original. ? Reducing the exposure masking increases the exposure but whites out the fine details. The paper has gone very brown from air bourne SO2/SO3 , neutralising the paper with alkali improves things but tends to lighten the black image so no further forward as far as contrast. Hi... Please do yourself a favour and don't even think about cleaning mirrors and lenses... You haven't mentioned the scanner maker or model, but I suspect what you're looking to do is scan them in either your choice of either black and white or grayscale. Suspicion is that you'll find grayscale more to your liking, but experiment yourself to decide. You mention wanting to bring the exposure level up; not exactly sure what it is you mean, but what you really want to "play around with" is the gamma. Here's how I'd do it: Find the whitest white (note that white *doesn't* mean white, but rather an absense of colour. Set that to 100% Next find the blackest black (again, not black but dark with an absense of colour). Set that to 0%. Next move the gamma to your eyes pleasure, making the mid-tone grays look good. Take care. Ken |
Photocopying old browned paper schematics etc
Let me tell you photographer's trick in handling discolored prints (which is
akin to your problem) and that is rephotographing with a brown or yellow filter over the lens.(and shooting in B&W) In your case, you won't reshoot the image, but by resetting the luminance point to nuetral, in this case some shade of brown, you effectively have redefined the image as brown and white. If you consider the brown as white, the black falls into place. I would experiment by playing with a software filter to compensate for brown either subtractively or additively, or try adjusting same for the complimentary color. I'm assuming you have software capable of this either as your scanner package, or perhaps some version of Photoshop. |
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