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Originally posted by Chris4
My dad is scanning some letters and editing them, but when he scans them, the writing doesn't come out black like it should do, it comes out grey. I need a free image editing program that will let me change the brightness.
Brightness, contrast and sharpening are all pretty basic functions. Almost any photo editing software would have them.
I will throw out some ideas. Google any of those names to find out more.
Free: Gimp, trial versions of some of the non-free software.
Inexpensive: Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Ulead PhotoImpact
Expensive, popular, often pirated: Adobe Photoshop
Also, if the letters in question are typed, your dad may be interested in converting them to text documents using OCR. Office 2003, should you have that, includes very decent OCR capabilities. A good third party product for that is ABBYY FineReader.
