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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. All he has is Paint and you can't make it darker with that.

I need a free image editing program that will let me change the brightness so I can do what the above says.

If anyone could find me a program then that would help out alot :)

Thanks.

Edit: Thinking about it, if I make the whole page darker, it also changes the white space darker :dodgy:. I found 'sharpen' (Lexmark printer program) makes it darker. But any suggestions welcome.

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RE: Image Editing Program
when scanning, put on high contrast?
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Found the problem. Stupid mistake 8-)

Thanks anyway.

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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.


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Paint dot net...
Great one... its free...
Also, you could have inverted colors in paint and see the results...
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K thanks :)
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