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Blumpkin's Cover Bounty Board - CLOSED
tylerbgood:
The built in scanner tools did a better version of reducing the moire, but the IJ Scan utility seems to have done a better job at retaining the original colors at the cost of the whites washing out some of the detail in the brighter areas. It's a bit of a judgement call, but I personally think the built in tool did a better job overall, since the minor color difference can be corrected digitally in Photoshop.
One other word of advice, if you aren't doing it already, use a book or two to weigh down the cover when you scan it. It will help flatten the image (and the spine in particular) and eliminate the "flash" you can see reflecting in the IJ scan.
And most of all, thank you so much for making scans!
ignition365:
Stretch Panic just came in... I know that one is becoming a hard to find game, so I'll make sure to scan that one soon.
I'll try to do the book thing, but my scanner may not like that.
The IJ Scan has these options
The scanner itself has "Reduce show-thru", "descreen", and "unsharp mask".
How do people feel about Auto Document Feeders? I'm putting the cover art of a dupe of mine through the ADF and it looks good, but I could see that a moving scan might possibly turn inconsistent.
lol I found the advanced settings for IJ Scan and now I'm scanning at 1200 dpi and found the "descreen" option.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUWnRzYWE5VkJ3enM
So here is Chaos Legion scanned with the IJ Scan with descreen at 1200 dpi. I didn't edit the scan at all for this one, so you can even see the book I used to flatten the cover art.
tylerbgood:
1200dpi might be a little too large. I think 600dpi is probably the sweet spot. I couldn't open it with Photo Viewer but Photoshop handled it all right.
I made a comparison image of the 3 different scans you've made so that it's eaiser to judge the various strengths and weaknesses of the images. I think I still prefer the version using the built in scanner tools, but hopefully some of the other resident cover artists will weigh in with their opinions as well. It's kind of a tough call!
This is just a preview image, download to see the full size.
ignition365:
Yeah, the blacks look better using the default tools.
I'll give it another try with Puzzle de Harvest Moon later today.
I lied. I scanned it now.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUWDJZU3B0bzdZUDg
Stretch Panic soon.
tylerbgood:
I cleaned and cropped Chaos Legion and Harvest Moon. Bounty of course goes to ignition365 for providing the raw scans!
Chaos Legion
Puzzle de Harvest Moon