Torstan, in photoshop its select>color range ... it then brings up a dialog so that you can choose a color ... from there its hazy but eventually I just selected all the black and then pasted as a new layer over the parchment.psd I had done... and scaled it. after I scaled it it was really light so I just used the Edit>Stroke command to darken it up....

Turgenev... thanks ... I think when I get it fully done and digitally rendered I'll use that parchment effect