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stygzy:
I have a quick question. I was getting some information on some old comics I have and i happened to open a link to this thread. I happen to have "Bill Battle" #2 (Six Feet Under) sitting right here and thought I might be able to help you guys out. I have a scanner I can hook up but I just wanted to make sure I understand what you guys want before I waste time for all of us. So am I just supposed to scan the book cover to cover and up it to the site?

narfstar:
It would be most welcome and cover to cover is preferred. 300 dpi (ppi) is preferred but that depends on how much time you have and the speed of your scanner. I think the majority of the scans on site are 150 dpi. Before scanning set your page naming and start with 01 rather than 1 so that they will sort in order. After all pages are scanned zip the file and upload away. Thanks for wanting to contribute.

Yoc:
There is a topic in the FAQ section on how to upload to the site stygzy.  
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1882.0.html
Thanks for sharing.
:)

stygzy:
Damn that took forever scanning that in but it's not letting me log into the main site so I can upload it. Im guessing i'll have to wait 24 hours before it will let me log in since I registered last night, which sucks because I was hoping to be done with this whole thing by now. I'll just try agian tonight or tomorrow. I compressed the file to a .cbz and its 72.6Mb, its 36 pages (I scanned it cover to cover), all at 300 dpi. My usual scanner isn't working so I had to use an old compaq one that acts up a little bit. Some of the scans have a faint red tint on the right half of the image. That and the fact the comic is from 1952 and it's not mint made it difficult to scan without hurting it. Despite all that I think it turned out well, all the text and images are sharp and readable. I hope it will be acceptable, I guess we will find out in the morning.

tilliban:
Thank you for your effort.
From my own experience I can say: Scanning and uploading is fairly easy - once you get the hang of it!
The only way to make your scans smaller is by cropping them down with an image software (preferabley some version of Photoshop).
But I think all that is covered in our forum thread about scanning and such...
So be patient - and proud to present your first scan.

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