crappy stitch of post #85455 and post #85456 by me... at the very least it should keep people happy until a proper stitch is done

i'm still considering the vector though... maybe I'll work on it later

The bleed-through is a bit distracting.

i never attempted to fix the bleed through.... is there even a way to fix that after a pic has been scanned?

There was an discussion a while ago on how to fix bleed-through without re-scanning. I'll see if I can find it.

post #72292 & forum #3109

thanks, i'll look into it over the weekend...
for tonight though I'll stick with vectoring because I at least know what I'm doing with that

There's really nothing that can be done about bleed-through in a scan, other than playing with levels--which has already been done here, I think. All you can do otherwise is try to brush over it, which is a pain and can damage the image even worse if you're not careful.

The real fix is to reduce it when scanning, but with magazines on cheap paper, even that's difficult...

On my attempts with bleed throughs, with thinner papers, there is almost nearly impossible to scan them without bleed throughs. Since initial steps are important during the scanning process to prevent thinner papers, like using a black stock paper gives you a darker scan and white stock paper gives you brighter scans.

On Photoshop, along with leveling and a bit of curves, if you're determined to fix them, manual labor is one of the few ways with tools like smudge, clone tool and the other tools along with the healing brush.

http://moe.imouto.org/pool/show/763
same thin cheap paper but I did =D