How to Darken Text on Scanned Documents

[Laughter] and today I'm gonna show you how to enhance text in Old scan images or documents so we will take something like this and make it into something like this so without any further you let's get started okay I have this scan document sent to me by a friend on Facebook and he wanted me to record a video tutorial about this on how to darken this and also how to remove its background I also covered the very same topic of removing background in one of my previous videos you can check that if you search how to remove background from logos on this channel so let's get started the first step is very simple all you have to do is press Ctrl L for the levels command that will bring up the levels dialog box and now all you need to do is drag this left slider towards the right side until you are satisfied don't go too far because that will mess things up just trust your eyes with this one and where you think you have enough details just stop it right there hit OK and you're done so if you want you can also remove the background unlock the background layer by clicking the lock and double click the layer to open up the blending options and make sure blending options on the left is selected and under blend if it says Gray move the slider towards the left and if you want you can hold down the ALT key to smooth out the cutout transition between white and black color here okay I was just guessing this create a new layer and move this layer below and you can fill any color now like the white color is our background color now so if I press Ctrl backspace that will fill the background we divide so this was about enhancing the black color so what if we have the text in another color now that's a topic we will cover in another video so leave your comment below and tell me what do you think

Channel: NemesisWorks

Views: 5,961

Keywords: photoshop, adobe photoshop, Tutorial, photoshop tutorial, darken text, enhance text, prominent, make text, highlight text, make text darker, document, scanned, old documents, levels, photoshop cc, orangzeb, o dash

Id: 2TeAKg7GIeU

Length: 2min 46sec (166 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 23 2022