Blumpkin's Cover Bounty Board - CLOSED

[sheep2001]

NDS Bomberman - bounty to TDIRunner



https://app.box.com/s/w9l2yblhgr4iay8qwjsboiqyvkfd9ih8

[sheep2001]

NDS - Dragon Booster - any bounty to TDIRunner
Not the best scans - but should print nicely



https://app.box.com/s/9r0v52ldozjuevs03hoe22a9r20n2ypf

[sheep2001]

PS2 - Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy



https://app.box.com/s/l6rzcnhjvq1atwnqcv176fsz025qyi8t

as usual - bounty to TDIRunner

[Blumpkin]

Updated bounties.

[Blumpkin]

Updated rewards (PS1 inserts and manuals)

[tylerbgood]

Got another one for you Blumpkin! I also have a scan of Casper: Spirit Dimensions, just need to clean it up and I'll get it posted.

Superman: Shadow of Apokolips

[ignition365]

I have Ivy the Kiwi? and Puzzle de Harvest Moon for DS, and Chaos Legion and Casper Spirit Dimensions for PS2.  I also have Stretch Panic on the way.

I'll try to make scans, don't know how good my scanner is.

[tylerbgood]

I'll try to make scans, don't know how good my scanner is.

When you go to scan your covers, adjust your settings in the software to scan at 300dpi or more if possible. Also, if you have a setting which allows you to "descreen" or "derasterize" check that off as well. And when you put your cover on the scanner, don't place it right against the edge, most scanners cut off a little of the edges of the scanning surface.

There's a good guide created by Doom here: http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=1305.0 but it's a little ugly right now since photobucket broke all the image links.

Hope this helps! If you have any questions feel free to ask. And if you already knew all this, my apologies for the unnecessary advice!

[ignition365]

I'll try to make scans, don't know how good my scanner is.

When you go to scan your covers, adjust your settings in the software to scan at 300dpi or more if possible. Also, if you have a setting which allows you to "descreen" or "derasterize" check that off as well. And when you put your cover on the scanner, don't place it right against the edge, most scanners cut off a little of the edges of the scanning surface.

There's a good guide created by Doom here: http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=1305.0 but it's a little ugly right now since photobucket broke all the image links.

Hope this helps! If you have any questions feel free to ask. And if you already knew all this, my apologies for the unnecessary advice!

Advice is entirely welcomed.  My wife is the only person who has used our scanner, so I have no experience with that.

The only thing I knew was to try and scan at 600dpi but 300 dpi minimally.

To clarify, you are saying to make sure "descreen" and/or "derasterize" is turned off?

[sheep2001]

Descreen ON please.

[tylerbgood]

As sheep said, you want descreen on. What it does is reduce the moire or "flower" pattern you see in a lot of raw scans. If you look at the raw scan of Casper I shared earlier in this thread you can see a good example of the pattern I'm talking about.

Speaking of Casper, I finished working on the akrate69's scan earilier today. Please feel free to still scan your copy though ignition, as the raw scan I was working with had some of that moire I mentioned and although I think I managed to eliminate the worst of it, your image may still come out better!

Casper: Spirit Dimensions

[ignition365]

Aight.

I'll give it a try when I get home.  I'll need to verify the condition of the covers regardless.

[ignition365]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUdWx3U0tkRUtkX00

Aye, how about that?  After some feedback, and possibly trial and error, I'll try scanning the other ones.

Scan options didn't have descreen or anything but it had "Reduce moire" so I used that.  Other scan software I used had no options whatsoever and I guess it had a lot of moire because it looked kind of like one of those 3D eye illusion pictures.

If anybody has any suggestions on scanner software, let me know.  I tried Windows Scan and Fax and the Canon IJ Scan Utility.

[sheep2001]

Only viewing on my ipad at the moment, but from what I can see, there's still a little bit of moire there, but other than that it's a decent scan.  Certainly usable.  Thanks.

[ignition365]

Okay well I made 2 scans of Chaos Legion.  1 with the built in scanner tools and 1 with the IJ Scan Utility.  The scanner tools had descreen but I think the IJ Scan Utility looks nicer.  *shrug*  But what do I know.

IJ Scan
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUYWVCNmdNQ0plWVU

Scanner
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUUGNQU3VIQ0JxZzQ

I had some trouble with my scanner in general so I think part of it is clipped on the bottom so I need to rescan regardless.