How do I lighten or remove dark/black images or layers in Photoshop CS5?

For several months, I have been trying to find the best ways to reduce the excessive amount of toner that is required to print many pdf documents in black and white, or even grayscale. I use Leanprint but it can still leave pages of dark and black images.
Several Adobe Acrobat X posts say to use Photoshop to remove black graphics and/or reduce the darkness of images. However, they give no further information about what to do in Photoshop. I am not a simpleton but I know very little about Photoshop other than that there are probably several ways to accomplish this, depending on the circumstances. I dread having to spend more hours trying to figure out what is the best option to use in each specific situation.
It is puzzling that it has been so difficult to find the information needed, especially since many other people would like this information as well.
I hope that someone can advise me or just point me to some directions and resources as places to start. Even knowing the best search terms to find this information could be useful.
Thank you for any assistance.
Cathy

Ok, something to keep in mind with CS5 photoshop any change of its brightness and or contrast usually is considered a permanent change.
However if your image is a camera raw file (straight from the camera in its native raw format) a tiff or a jpg, you can and should open the file in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) as any edits done in ACR are non-destructible in that any changes made can be changed or reset at any later time in the future as it does not alter the image it self, but applies the edits to the metadata.
That said, it means in order for a program to see those changes it needs the ability to read the metadata, which not all programs can do.
In ACR you will find a contrast slider, by decreasing the contrast the image will become lighter. You can also increase the highlights or whites and you can decrease the shadows or blacks. This effectively is similar to lowering the contrast, but because it is an additional step, you can do all three sliders effectively reducing the contrast even further than you would be moving the contrast slider by itself.
Since this is a metadata alteration, this change you made can be applied to a folder full of images that are the same formats I mentioned above, or you can select a group of images in bridge and apply to just the selected group.
At any time in the future you can remove the edits should you need to use the original image once again.

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