Seeking Photoshop advice: Removing the yellow background from old newspaper clippings

[elfkin477]

@capybara

Hmm. Change them to gray scale, then up the brightness and the contrast. If your version has adjustment for “levels” you can fiddle with that too, making the dark side very dark and the light side very light and lose the mushy stuff in between.

Don’t try it with a handwritten document, though. We attempted it at work, and it ends up so jagged looking you can barely read it.