Hi. I have an elderly friend whose father kept a diary during WW2. The diary is written in pencil on poor quality paper that has yellowed considerably with age. The text is still pretty legible but as time passes it will become less so. I decided I could photograph pages of the diary and enhance them using Gimp. The final result should be something that can be printed out on a computer printer, i.e., greyscale/b&w. I took the photos in color, thinking I'd have more manipulation options, then could make the images greyscale. I'm not any kind of gimp power user or anything--I usually just feel my way around the program and usually get it to do the fairly simple graphic manipulations I want. So far, that method has not worked well for this project. So I'd like to ask some tips here on accomplishing the goal I'm after. Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the pencil text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to things I can try under gimp that will help me accomplish these aims? -- James _______________________________________________ Gimp-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user