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"Enhancing" comic scans--yes or no?
Yoc:
No worries Q, again, as long as members have a choice of original or enhanced version I can't see anyone objecting. The choice is theirs which to read. I've just added many more enhanced versions of MLJ books by JVJ scanner Jon.
fett:
My own opinion, I consider it bad form to re-edit and re-release scans, unless you have the original scanner's permission. I consider this to be common courtesy. Most of us have been scanning for awhile and think we know what we want out scans to look like. Very irritating to see my scans sent through a whitewasher (I like the raw paper look-the way they appear to your eyes when you open the actual comic), and that is the way I want MY offering to appear.I do not want to see my scans with an "upgrade" suffix on the filename. If you want to take the time to acquire a rare comic from the 1940s and 1950s and to actually slap it on the scanner and scan it, then take the time to edit it, by all means jump right in and join us. There is still a ton of unscanned material that has not been touched from the 40s and 50s. /rant off :)
bchat:
--- Quote from: harlanames on December 10, 2011, 06:09:53 PM --- "Enhancing" comic scans--yes or no?
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Sounds like a good idea for a poll.
Ideally, and this is only my preference, if there were any type of edits that I felt needed to be made regarding colors, I'd rather do it myself. The settings on my monitor may be different than someone else's, so what looks good on an their screen may not look good on mine, and vice versa. I prefer to look at "natural scans", where the only editing that was done was some straightening, cropping and/or resizing. The only times I've felt compelled to edit a file I've downloaded were for a few of the fiche files, where the colors were too dark or the text was too difficult to read without some sort of editing on my part.
As was pointed-out in a similar discussion "somewhere else" (either here or at the other site), comics from this era weren't printed on pure-white paper. I don't feel that colorists from that time period were unaware of how their work would appear once it was printed. It's my opinion that if the colors are edited so that the pages appear white, then they are being pushing beyond how they would have appeared originally.
Yoc:
--- Quote from: fett on December 14, 2011, 05:18:24 AM ---My own opinion, I consider it bad form to re-edit and re-release scans, unless you have the original scanner's permission... Very irritating to see my scans sent through a whitewasher (I like the raw paper look-the way they appear to your eyes when you open the actual comic), and that is the way I want MY offering to appear.I do not want to see my scans with an "upgrade" suffix on the filename.
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Ok Fett, I hope all upgrade editors have taken note and I'll try to keep that in mind if more such files turn up. Fett does Not want to be upgraded!
:)
Snard:
Here is my take.
I pretty much agree with fett here. I know that my own preferences aren't the same as everyone else's, but I also know that I (usually) like the way my own scans turn out. I also know that I can sometimes be a little thin-skinned if someone asks me to change the way I scan or edit. As fett says, if we are spending the $ and/or time to edit the books, we should be able to do it the way we want :)
That said, I will offer another option for any scan here with my nickname on it. I've saved the raw, unedited scans for almost everything I've done, and would be happy to share those raw scans with anyone who wants to try their own hand at the edits. This would most likely produce better results than taking my already-edited scans and trying to re-edit them.
If you want to take me up on this offer, send me a PM.
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