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Publisher: How to apply color correction to all pages/objects?


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Hi,

I have a PDF with scans from an old book. Unfortunately all 240 pages yellow/brownish. Imported in Publisher every page has one object: the picture of the page. Now I would like to apply a color correction to all pages. Is there an easy way to do this?

What I stumbled upon is: in the dialog box for tone mapping there is an "Add Preset" button but I didn't find a button to "Apply preset". Anyway - would still be a tough task for 240 pages ...

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The histogram lets me assume the source images are pure greyscale and do not show any colors?

Ate the pages simply one image per page, all same size?

Then I would batch-convert the images with Photo and convert them to grey/8, and repeat the import process.

You may need to apply a curve adjustment to balance tones.
 

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This allows to add master pages on top 

 

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1 hour ago, Andreas S said:

I didn't find a button to "Apply preset"

Oddly, this appears in the Adjustment Panel only, not accessible via Layers Panel.

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You can apply a desired F/X (like on the clip below, drop shadow and decrease of saturation) on an image and then apply that style in one go by selecting all images in the publication:

 Note that you can similarly remove F/X in one go from all images by removing them from one image, then selecting all image, and copy pasting the F/X.

Here's the result when exported to press PDF:

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