Help making a new character sheet

[Petrocorus]

Hello everyone.

I recently stumbled onto old ADD2 character sheets.
They looked cool to me so i scanned them in order to adapt them to DD5.

https://i.imgur.com/pOybyYW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/z3JQRgE.jpg
Here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1khzxymdwzy8pca/AAD7YM4jkHq9IAUchpOLJ5NYa?dl=0) are the higher definition files.

My problem is that before reworking them, i'd need to clean up the background colour. The sheet was old and yellowed, i performed to improve them on Window's Photo app, but the background is still a mesh of many shades of greys.
I tried to just cut every thing and filling with a light grey, but it look awful with the parts i don't want to cut.
I'm really not experienced with image softwares.

Does any one know a way to clean and improve the background without having to work on it almost pixel by pixel?

[Man_Over_Game]

Hello everyone.

I recently stumbled onto old ADD2 character sheets.
They looked cool to me so i scanned them in order to adapt them to DD5.

https://i.imgur.com/pOybyYW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/z3JQRgE.jpg
Here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1khzxymdwzy8pca/AAD7YM4jkHq9IAUchpOLJ5NYa?dl=0) are the higher definition files.

My problem is that before reworking them, i'd need to clean up the background colour. The sheet was old and yellowed, i performed to improve them on Window's Photo app, but the background is still a mesh of many shades of greys.
I tried to just cut every thing and filling with a light grey, but it look awful with the parts i don't want to cut.
I'm really not experienced with image softwares.

Does any one know a way to clean and improve the background without having to work on it almost pixel by pixel?

GIMP is your best friend. Here's a very quick tutorial on how to effectively remove a color that's bled onto your page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iehOYBYgXE

The example he uses has a red effect, while yours is yellow (so you will have to focus on reducing the scale of the red and green), but it should do what you're looking for.

You could also fix it by just sampling the yellow and removing the color, playing around with the tolerance levels (so it will grab darker or brighter yellows than the sample you selected), but it has the risk of removing stuff that might have been modified by the yellow (like greyer parts of the text).

[firelistener]

I'll just second using GIMP here, OP. It's free, and there's a good amount of tutorials to do simple stuff. I use it to create or edit character art, and it's a lot of fun to me even though I'm not very skilled with it.

[Petrocorus]

Thank you both.

I've been able do to what i needed using this tutorials and others on YT.

:smallsmile: