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[Superchop]

I have a whole bunch of old gamepro magazines and sega visions magazines that I can look through

If anyone knows about games advertised in the late 90's early 2000's that they like I can focus on those ads more...

--edit--

Actually...it may not even be those years...I haven't looked at them since I cancelled my subscription which is an unknown amount of years ago.  But either way I'll still go through them

[Superchop]

Previous page had some ads for games from Working Designs so I thought this would be a nice addition.

Albert Odyssey for the Sega Saturn (25 mbs)



While flipping through a few magazines I saw this ad and immediately thought of Forte and his collection, lol

Neo Geo Pocket Color (25 mbs)

[sadikyo]

These are all awesome guys!  I love this kind of stuff and I'm hoping others do as well!

[zakurowrath]

These posters really look nice I commend the hard work in restoring them.

I actually have a few posters that I've collected over the years and in the future I'm going to invest in a poster scanner to preserve them digitally and fix a few that are damaged by the sun over the years.

My question is how would I go about doing that, fixing sun damage in something like Photoshop? Also, how about fold lines, how would one take those out so that when I create a reproduction for myself they won't show up on the print?

[Mick Dundee]

Superchop, I LOVE ALBERT ODYSSEY! (Have my complete copy thanks to Seymor Onion)
 I had that other SNK ad....tossed it out with the rest of the magazine I wasn't using.

 I only keep the RPG Ads.

[Deadpool]

These posters really look nice I commend the hard work in restoring them.

I actually have a few posters that I've collected over the years and in the future I'm going to invest in a poster scanner to preserve them digitally and fix a few that are damaged by the sun over the years.

My question is how would I go about doing that, fixing sun damage in something like Photoshop? Also, how about fold lines, how would one take those out so that when I create a reproduction for myself they won't show up on the print?

yep in photoshop you can cover the fold lines actually the poster i posted before was very very folded.

https://www.box.com/s/eykkxezs35euz5zhr0s9

https://www.box.com/s/bo6tc1mjbl3jnkaju7ec

[zakurowrath]

These posters really look nice I commend the hard work in restoring them.

I actually have a few posters that I've collected over the years and in the future I'm going to invest in a poster scanner to preserve them digitally and fix a few that are damaged by the sun over the years.

My question is how would I go about doing that, fixing sun damage in something like Photoshop? Also, how about fold lines, how would one take those out so that when I create a reproduction for myself they won't show up on the print?

yep in photoshop you can cover the fold lines actually the poster i posted before was very very folded.

https://www.box.com/s/eykkxezs35euz5zhr0s9

https://www.box.com/s/bo6tc1mjbl3jnkaju7ec

Wow, it's really night and day when it comes to the restoration, I love when Colours pop from increased contrast and RGB values 

Any tips on what tools to use in Photoshop? Also did you use a regular scanner or a dedicated large format scanner?

[Mick Dundee]

I uploaded some Game Adds here:

https://www.box.com/s/tmbm644xdias8ntpeumg

 And the Ys Art Book that came with one of the newer PSP games..I tore it apart and scanned it here:


https://www.box.com/s/nlgi1dxzda5xaex7fa87

[sadikyo]

Wow - nice uploads everyone   And thanks for the YS Art upload ^^^   You sacrificed your book and 'took one for the team.'  How incredibly selfless of you!!! That was a really cool thing to do.

[Mick Dundee]

You sacrificed your book and 'took one for the team.'  How incredibly selfless of you!!! That was a really cool thing to do.

 Well...it helps when you have a spare....

[sadikyo]

Ok   But still, that was a nice thing to do.  Thanks!

[Superchop]

Uploaded a bunch of new ads.

Video Game Ads Folder

So far in the folder there are ads for

(Genesis) Shining Force 2
(Genesis) Eternal Champions (originally a 2 page ad...but first page didn't interest me enough to scan in)
(Genesis) Sonic & Knuckles

(SNES) Final Fantasy 3 (2 page ad)

(PS2) Final Fantasy X

(Saturn) Shining Wisdom
(Saturn) Dragon Force
(Saturn) Albert Odyssey

NeoGeo Pocket Color Ad 1
NeoGeo Pocket Color Ad 2 (water damage )

Final Fantasy 3 was one of my favorite ads but unfortunately the magazine it was in had some water damage from a flooded basement It doesn't seem too bad to fix but when it comes to photo editing I'm not exactly skillful.  If someone can be so kind as to clean it up a bit I'd be grateful

[Deadpool]

These posters really look nice I commend the hard work in restoring them.

I actually have a few posters that I've collected over the years and in the future I'm going to invest in a poster scanner to preserve them digitally and fix a few that are damaged by the sun over the years.

My question is how would I go about doing that, fixing sun damage in something like Photoshop? Also, how about fold lines, how would one take those out so that when I create a reproduction for myself they won't show up on the print?

yep in photoshop you can cover the fold lines actually the poster i posted before was very very folded.

https://www.box.com/s/eykkxezs35euz5zhr0s9

https://www.box.com/s/bo6tc1mjbl3jnkaju7ec

Wow, it's really night and day when it comes to the restoration, I love when Colours pop from increased contrast and RGB values 

Any tips on what tools to use in Photoshop? Also did you use a regular scanner or a dedicated large format scanner?

actually i got a normal size scanner, i ve just folded the poster then i scanned it in parts. and in photoshop well you have to watch some tutorials online if you practice enough you can do a lot of things in a short time.

[Superchop]

Question...I have a map/poster that I would love to see restored but what would be the best way to put it up here?

I'll have to scan it in parts since the map is bigger then my scanner bed but does it matter if the colors on some scans don't exactly match other scans?

I'd also post it up in pieces for whoever decides to take the task on so that wouldn't be an issue either right?

[sadikyo]

^^^ The different pieces wouldn't be a problem.  If you put something heavy on top of the poster, it will flatten it out for the best possible scan.  

What do you mean by different colors for the different scans?  Do you mean just slightly off colors because it wasn't scanned all at once?  Obviously an entire scan is going to be the best, but if all we can get is a collection of partial scans, it is at least better than nothing.  You could always post up what you can and we can see about post-processing.

Also -- make sure that as you scan the different sections that there is a little bit of overlap.  What I mean is - let's say the poster is folded into fourths.  You could scan each quadrant exactly, but the best thing to do would be to scan, let's say, the upper left quadrant plus a little bit of the other quadrants around the perimeter of it.  This will make connecting the pieces much easier / better.