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"Enhancing" comic scans--yes or no?

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Yoc:
I'm with narf on that!

I love Snard's offer of the original raw scans.  Re-saving jpgs never looks good like photocopies of photocopies.
But there are cases where frankly the originals could use improvements and in Jon and the MLJ books, it's been years between new MLJ scans.  It seems like this is all we are going to get.  It's great he added missing pages on some which made them essential to add to DCM, but he's also done a nice job of adjusting some scans that had pretty dark, muddy problems.  I like them myself but members will always have the choice of which they want.  If were were to dump the originals it would be wrong.
More choice is always better than less.  If people really think they can do a good job on a sub-par scans go for it.  That's just my opinion.  Everyone is entitled to their own.  But if an original scanner has made it known they do not want someone monkeying with their work I suggest we honour their wishes.

The Quill:
I must admit to being very surprised and impressed by this forums passion for this medium of collecting, which I applaud.

For the record my last two 'editing' efforts have been with the original scanners permission and I can assure you all that I would never knowingly rework any scans without prior permission.

When I first joined this wonderful community I did publish a post asking if remastering was acceptable and a couple of members gave me the thumbs up to rework some of their titles, and my only intention was for people to enjoy the finished product.

I fully understand members have their preferences and will always ensure I will never rework publications without the relevant members endorsement.

With sincere intentions

Q

srca1941:
Re: MLJ, I can upgrade a few to 300dpi versions. When I did my count for my "50th" scan, I had forgotten that I also did Jackpot Comics #1. I can upgrade that one pretty easily as long as I didn't scan it at 150dpi. I also have a couple of early Top-Notches, including #7, an issue of Zip, and a Roly Poly that reprints another Zip issue.

[Edit:] The bad news, Jackpot #1 is only 150 dpi scans. The good news is I can rescan it sometime soon.

-Eric

Yoc:
Sounds GREAT Eric!  Looking forward to them someday.
:)

JonTheScanner:
Re my edits of the MLJ scans.  My original intention was to add missing inside covers and missing pages from fiche scans the latter of which Ontology (sigh I miss him) did for me. While doing this I enlarged some pages and modified colors. Since the scans were for me and a few other people, I felt there was no reason not to do so. Obviously I personally prefer my edits or I wouldn't have bothered to do them.

At various times others in the scanning community asked for these scans and I provided them my c2cizations. Anyone who wanted the original pages only had to merge my added pages with theirs.

About a week ago, Yoc found these scans on DC++ (not my share) and asked me for the rest -- which I've started to provide. As I no longer have the original scans, I really have no way of telling now which pages I've added or changed. So if you want just the added pages, you'll have to extract them yourself.

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