Photoshop Help

[CaptainGoodnight]

How do remove the dark areas inside the 'O's, 'P's, etc...

Example

 

[brnbngls]

There's a magic wand tool in PS that will allow you to select those areas and then delete them.

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

and I forgot to mention this is from a whole page of text. I know the Magic Wand tool works, but I would have to repeat that 1000 times. Trying to find a quick way of doing it.

 

[LordMaul]

Try, uh, selecting with the magic wand, then right click>Similar.

That should do that trick...if not, come back.

 

[Passions]

Use the eraser and erase the dark areas inside O's and P's.

 

[DrMoreau]

If those dark areas you want to get rid of are fairly consistent in color this is how I'd do it using Paintshop Pro. Not sure if you can do the same in Photoshop or not.

Set your background color to match the color of the shaded area, use the eyedropper to grab the color.

Then Paste As Transparent Selection.

The pasted floating layer will have the dark areas removed and transparent. Copy it while it's still a floating layer.

Now paste it on a clean background layer and your dark areas should be gone.

There may be a few stray pixels if the dark areas were not all one color across all pixels. Just repeat the process by setting the background color to match those stray pixels.

The only times this hasn't worked for me was when the there were too many pixels with different colors that I needed to get rid of. But from the looks of that pic it seems like you wouldn't have that problem.

 

[Illusio]

try adjusting the contrast to a high level. Lots of times that will get rid of any grey areas and just leave black and white. of course if you do it too much, they text will look jagged.

 

[Platypus]

I am sure there is something on the lasso tool in the instruction manual.