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| Thread ID: 56445 | 2005-04-04 23:24:00 | Photoshop - highlighting text | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 341763 | 2005-04-04 23:24:00 | I have a PDF file of a scanned magazine article. How do I highlight a section of text, e.g. with a yellow background or underlining in colour? Using the paintbrush or air brush wipes/erases the text. I use Photoshop 6.0. Thanks |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 341764 | 2005-04-05 02:08:00 | I would say the text you see is part of the image and not selectable as "Text". You could use the retangular selection tool or the magic wand(holding Ctrl as you click each letter) |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 341765 | 2005-04-05 02:12:00 | Lower the opicity of the paint,and choose an effect that reactes more with the background then with the lettering, (experiment with colour burn,colour dodge) Or you could blow it right up so you can see the indvidual pixels,then select them,inverse selection,then paint over the selection,the writing would be untouched. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 341766 | 2005-04-05 10:42:00 | Lower the opicity of the paint,and choose an effect that reactes more with the background then with the lettering, (experiment with colour burn,colour dodge) Thanks Metla. I have never used the Opacity function; using a colour photo to experiment on, I also adjusted the Mode to Saturation, with good results. However, the problem with the page of text seems to be that I scanned it in Grayscale, not colour. I know there is a way to desaturate a colour image (photo) but there does not seem to be a way to reciprocate. I tried changing the page of text into a BMP but still no go. And yet I have done it before - I have managed to highlight text scanned - but cannot recall how I did it. I will try to scan the page in colour, but I would rather not do this since the file size will increase quite a bit making it bulky to email. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 341767 | 2005-04-05 10:49:00 | You could use the retangular selection tool or the magic wand(holding Ctrl as you click each letter) Yes, but this merely selects the area to be manipulated (coloured). |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 341768 | 2005-04-05 11:54:00 | The wand tool will select each letter as you click on it, or maybe my thinking is on a different track. Can you 'save for web' and give us a screen shot. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 341769 | 2005-04-05 19:53:00 | Woke up this morning and remembered that instead of highlighting a PDF file, it was a scanned and OCR'd page converted to text. :blush: :rolleyes: OK, so now I have to figure out how to highlight a MS Word document! | Strommer (42) | ||
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