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Made A Test Scan - Not Sure If I Should Upload It
Cynicalman:
--- Quote from: narfstar on December 17, 2012, 03:48:43 PM ---In Irfranview you can set the file size to the Meg you want
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--- Quote from: Yoc on December 17, 2012, 04:00:19 PM ---Sure, lots of ways of skinning this cat.
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Agreed, and I don't use photoshop - so Infranview or ULead's PhotoImpact (or Pixelmator when on my mac) are my choices.
I just can't get past my aversion to jpg files and still prefer a lossless format like png, but they have much larger file sizes :(
Yoc:
I feel you CM. I'm the same working in TIFF until the very last moment.
tilliban:
Catskinning man calling!
I think these oldy and moldy books do just FINE in a slim JPEG variety.
They even look fine.
Scanned that way they even look better than on paper!
Golden Age comic books were printed so miserably.
Handling them too good will enhance the misery.
:D
You can't get a glossy result from a shabby original. They have to be that bit ragged, else something's missing.
Back to scanning that cat now...
Geo (RIP):
CM, have you looked into GraphicConverter on your Mac. It's the one I use, it does except plug-in's from Photo Shop. Kind of a poorman's Photo Shop. I've used it for years now.
Geo
Cynicalman:
Hi tilliban, I agree they look better by far without whitening the pages and making them "glossy." I wasn't talking about postworking them, but rather presenting a final image that will have use beyond just reading. Say I wanted to make a motion comic out of a cbr file. jpg format does not recompress well, so the image may look good, but has limited value beyond being "just" a cbr file for reading. The files may be bigger using png's, but future archeologists may appreciate it :-\ (tiff, as Yoc said, is a great format - I just prefer png for file size since it's still lossless) (but tiff takes layers, so ... yeah).
And hi Geo. I had a trial of Graphic Converter on my mac at one point. I think. At least it sounds familiar. Pixelmator does quite a lot for me, and has also been called a poorman's photoshop. I don't recall if it uses photoshop plug-ins... have to look into that.
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