papercut Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Hello there, Long time user of Paint.net and quite pleased with it. I use the vanilla app and do vanilla things. Lately I have been interested in using some turn of the century public domain line illustrations, but often they are found with yellow backgrounds from the old paper (beautiful but not what I am looking for). I can knock the blotchy yellow out with levels and such, but I think there is probably a way to remove it instead of washing it out. I see that there are a few plug ins out there that might do the job, but I don't know if they are updated to work with the newest program on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. If someone would be so kind as to tell me step by step the best method of doing the above, I would be most appreciative. My raster (and vector) skills are very limited. Kindly list the best plugins that work on a 64 bit WIn 7 distro and how to use them best. Sorry for the noob question! Thanks! Bonus question: Since some of the drawings are not the best quality, so vectorizing them has potential. I have played around with the trace bitmap tool on Inkscape and it is cool, but is it the best way? Is there a way to clean up a raster image without manually doing cleanup, or a plug in that lets it scale up? Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 This plugin should do the trick Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papercut Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Not bad, it worked relatively well. Thanks! I bet there are several ways around this problem, another is to drop the saturation all the way down. After vectorizing this is the result: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7962461/1%20The%20story%20of%20King%20Frost2.pdf https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7962461/1%20The%20story%20of%20King%20Frost2.svg It doesn't look too bad, the original before clean up: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7962461/1%20The%20story%20of%20King%20Frost.jpg (this one was not too yellow) Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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