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Geo (RIP):
--- Quote from: Poztron on July 24, 2010, 04:55:20 PM ---Black Magic #14 has been uploaded. I'm hoping the previous glitches have all been avoided this time.
There is some pretty decent art in this issue by the likes of Meskin, McCarty, Roussos, Walton, etc., though it is unfortunately obscured by bad coloring, bad registration, and aging of the newsprint. <g>
I've not done much color correction (other than the automatic color correction in my scanning software) as I believe that it is more authentic to scan an old comic as it is, not as we imagine it once was. (I recognize that there are different philosophies about this issue. I admire a good color correction job and over-all clean-up, but my preference is to give you the raw scans.) As usual, the stitch & trim on the book was crooked, and I tried to make pages closer to level, though there is some variation.
Enjoy.
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Here ya go with a sample of a bad book to work with:
original book, no adjustments done:
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/603/testorggd3.th.jpg
some adjustments done with scanner to remove the "brown":
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5973/test1nv0.th.jpg
I never was happy with the out come of this book when it was done. This was one of my earliest books I scanned and edited by the way.
Geo
Poztron:
--- Quote from: Geo on July 24, 2010, 08:14:26 PM ---
Here ya go with a sample of a bad book to work with:
original book, no adjustments done:
(...)
some adjustments done with scanner to remove the "brown":
(...)
I never was happy with the out come of this book when it was done. This was one of my earliest books I scanned and edited by the way.
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Geo, your point is well taken that some adjustments to scans are certainly called for. I'm lucky that my scanner software has a pretty decent automatic color correction option that does a lot of this work for me, lightening up the browned newsprint background, heightening the colors and contrast, etc. What I'm not personally into (but I don't object to others pursuing this) is trying to pull scans of pages back to an original "pre-browned" state. I think that a certain amount of newsprint aging actually adds a certain richness to pages that I like. There was a reprinting of a Joe Maneely story in one of Craig Yoe's anthologies (Arf Forum, I believe) that I loved because it included the browning of the comic pages it was shot from.
Poztron:
--- Quote from: Yoc on July 24, 2010, 06:35:50 PM ---Thanks P!
The Black Magic scan is just fine. Yes, it's got some very sad colouring work doesn't it?
Looking forward to your next book.
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Since I always bought GA comics as reading copies - not for condition - most of my scans are going to be from iffy quality comics. :( But I think that the original virtues of the stories and art still shine through, despite the ragged edges and detached covers, etc.
--- Quote ---I'm bumping you up to VIP status as well.
Congrats!
:)
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Thanks! Can you remind me again what VIP status carries with it? :P
Geo (RIP):
For one you will be able to access the VIP forum pages now, see it at the bottom, and ftp will be available if you need it,.
I too don't like the pages over-whitened Poztron, they were never that way in the first place.
Geo
JVJ (RIP):
--- Quote from: Geo on July 24, 2010, 08:14:26 PM ---
Here ya go with a sample of a bad book to work with:
original book, no adjustments done:
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/603/testorggd3.th.jpg
some adjustments done with scanner to remove the "brown":
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5973/test1nv0.th.jpg
I never was happy with the out come of this book when it was done. This was one of my earliest books I scanned and edited by the way.
Geo
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Here's a quick Levels adjustment in Photoshop to bring out the blacks and lighten the neutral gray.
http://www.bpib.com/temp/kirby-1.jpg(|:{>
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