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Sbrem:
I figured it out; once converted to grayscale, it need's to be ever so slightly blurred, or there are no grays to adjust, that fixed it.

Steve

Dottonedan:
I'm hoping I understand you correctly...in thinking that you are not understanding that the bitmap (SOILID HALFTONE) cannot be adjusted"to be lightened....unless you were to make it a greyscale and blur the image.  I don't think you want it blurred, but you cannot reverse engineer a pre-halftoned image with good results.  I mean you can, but but the results would not be as controlled as you might like. My guess is that other parts would be too far blurred.

Dottonedan:
ya beat me to it.

zanegun08:
Rather than blurring, I just decrease the size of the image, and then re-enlarge it which probably has a similar effect to blurring and then you can adjust the levels and re-bitmap the image.  You will lose some details but I've had good results doing this if the art is sent already bitmapped.

I have one to do today where there is a color rosette halftone that I need to have grayscale to make a 1 color bitmap that I'll use this method on.

Sbrem:
It's an auto body Frame straightener, printed as a left front, and I'm taking that left front and reducing it further to fit in a space with a lot of other sponsors. Pretty much why I wanted to adjust it. It was 300 ppi to start, so as I said, back to grayscale, .6 Gaussian Blur, just enough to allow me to make it lighter; I lost some image, but since it's for what it's for, it's OK. Thanks all.

Steve

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