Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-12 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:41:27AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:57:08PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I have a simple line drawing that is in shades of light grey against a > > > white ground. My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199 > > > to 000 to 25

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Haines, Haines Brown wrote: >>> Am I just being clumbsy, or is there a better approach? >>> >> try using the levels tool. > > Thanks, Carol, I did as you suggested. It works, although the result > was unsatisfactory because the original image distribution of greys > was uneven, and so the

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-12 Thread Haines Brown
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:57:08PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > I have a simple line drawing that is in shades of light grey against a > > white ground. My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199 > > to 000 to 255. > > ... > > > > Am I just being clumbsy, or is there a better app

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-12 Thread steven woody
hi, i found any downsampling ( scale image to a smaller size ) will definitely blur the image ( scaned from film ) to an undesired degree. is there any suggestion around that? using a unsharp-mask after every downsampling ? thanks. ___ Gimp-user maili

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-11 Thread Tim Jedlicka
> My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199> to 000 to 255.More specifically use levels and slide the left hand and right hand sliders in towards where your histogram starts. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:57:08PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I have a simple line drawing that is in shades of light grey against a > white ground. My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199 > to 000 to 255. > > Grokking the Gimp suggests I should use the Threshold Tool, but this

[Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-11 Thread Haines Brown
I have a simple line drawing that is in shades of light grey against a white ground. My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199 to 000 to 255. Grokking the Gimp suggests I should use the Threshold Tool, but this produces unsatisfactory results. By moving the sliders I can darken the