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srca1941:
Day 2 of the DCM 5th anniversary countdown! Today I present a 300 dpi upgrade of one of my old scans which I posted to alt.binaries.pictures.comics WAY back in 2002, Centaur's Amazing Man Comics #15! Now with a back cover scan from Heritage!!!
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August, 1940 - 300dpi rescan. Part 2 of srca1941's countdown to the DCM 5th Anniversary. Coverless copy with front and back covers from Heritage. Missing IFC and IBC.
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Tomorrow: Calling all boys...calling all boys...
-Eric
Yoc:
Thanks Eric, it's now up!
srca1941:
Day 3 of the DCM 5th anniversary countdown! Today's feature is an entirely new book to DCM, Calling All Boys #14. Unfortunately I discovered while scanning it that pages 9 and 10 were missing from the book, so if anyone else out there has this issue...
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November, 1947 - Part 3 of srca1941's countdown to the DCM 5th Anniversary. Incomplete copy missing pages 9 and 10. An unusual note about this issue is that three of the four cover features are text pieces, one of which continues unceremoniously in the middle of an ad page at the back of the book.
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Tomorrow: Something truly startling...
-Eric
Yoc:
Thanks Eric.
Hey, I see there's a new bigger version of Amazing Man 15 on the ftp now. I added the smaller one to the site. Did I add the wrong one?
I see you have a larger version of Mighty Midget Comics -Minute Man 012 as well. Should this be added to?
Is the Calling all Boys books the wanted size?
I'll hold off adding any until I hear back.
srca1941:
Calling All Boys is correct and ready to upload. The others can be added as well if you want to do them. When I was finalizing Calling All Boys I noticed how much I was compressing the pages and how much artifacting was occurring. At first I thought something had become messed up in the Photoshop action that I use to batch compress and save, so I re-compressed Amazing Man, Minute Man, and Blue Beetle and re-uploaded them. Then I remembered that the compression level wasn't a mistake after all, that back when I recorded and first started using that action, people were posting much smaller scans here, and that setting was keeping in line with those file sizes. Nowadays, the ZIP file sizes for many 36 page books here are larger than those for my 68 pagers, so I have adjusted the compression accordingly. My new scans have a much smoother and more natural look, even though they are still heavily compressed from my raw files.
Calling All Boys is my new normal, and you are welcome to replace the others if you want to go to the trouble. I can re-compress past scans as well if you would like me to, but if it's too much trouble to replace them it's not a big deal. The artifacting seems to mainly be in the blacks and reds, and isn't so prominent that it hurts the quality of the scan that much. I think I started using Photoshop compression back with Atomic Rabbit #4 which would mean that there are at least 13 other scans that could be upgraded. Prior to that I was using Ulead's JPEG SmartSaver to compress files for web use. I don't know what they did different in their compression algorithms, but I was able to get less artifacting and smaller file sizes with that program than with Photoshop. Unfortunately the version I was using came with my first scanner back in 1998, and doesn't work on new 64-bit operating systems.
-Eric
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