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| ignition365:
The scanner is just giving me a difficult time with Stretch Panic. No matter what I do it cuts off some of it. So I spent a good half hour trying to get this as good as I could and it still seems crooked or cut off. If it still is no good I can try to take a scan and not try to do any correcting. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUclFFT3RoWTd1bzg |
| tylerbgood:
Don't worry about straightening or cropping covers, it's easy to do in Photoshop. Just put it on the middle of the glass and scan! At first glance it looks like you got the whole cover in the shot, maybe a little of the bottom left corner got cut off, I can't really tell without the original in front of me though. |
| ignition365:
--- Quote from: tylerbgood on July 27, 2017, 07:38:22 PM ---Don't worry about straightening or cropping covers, it's easy to do in Photoshop. Just put it on the middle of the glass and scan! At first glance it looks like you got the whole cover in the shot, maybe a little of the bottom left corner got cut off, I can't really tell without the original in front of me though. --- End quote --- That's what I've been doing. Scanning and then throwing it in GIMP (Photoshop costs money *shrug*) and rotating/cropping. The scanner's built in scan tries to crop the image itself so sometimes some of it isn't presented in the scan. I don't really have any way of verifying that the cover actually is perfectly straight on all edges, it kind of seems to me that it isn't. Here's the unedited scan https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8OubzPHUnrUZXNObWlpSXFwWlk |
| tylerbgood:
There should be a way to disable the auto cropping feature, but scanning software varies so much it's hard to give any specifics on how you might go about turning it off. Honestly, you don't really even need to bother doing any adjusting in photo editing software when sharing raws, that can all be done by the cover artist when they are cleaning and making adjustments anyway. And if you're interested, Adobe gives away Photoshop CS2 for free now. It's not as full featured as the most recent versions, but it's still a competent piece of software by any standard. Here's the link if you want to give it a go: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PHSP/PhSp_CS2_English.exe |
| ignition365:
--- Quote from: tylerbgood on July 27, 2017, 08:09:46 PM ---There should be a way to disable the auto cropping feature, but scanning software varies so much it's hard to give any specifics on how you might go about turning it off. Honestly, you don't really even need to bother doing any adjusting in photo editing software when sharing raws, that can all be done by the cover artist when they are cleaning and making adjustments anyway. And if you're interested, Adobe gives away Photoshop CS2 for free now. It's not as full featured as the most recent versions, but it's still a competent piece of software by any standard. Here's the link if you want to give it a go: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/creativesuite/CS2_EOL/PHSP/PhSp_CS2_English.exe --- End quote --- Perhaps. Photoshop is what I'm used to from design school and occasionally work, but I've learned to use GIMP and as far as I can tell it can do just about anything PS can do if you learn how GIMP works. Though to be fair, I haven't tried to use any of the line tools in GIMP since I switched, and I don't know how well GIMP works with Wacom tablets. But that's good to know, I forced myself to switch to GIMP while PS was still several thousand dollars. |
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