What Should I Scan First?

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tiktektak:

--- Quote from: obishawn on May 02, 2010, 07:42:03 PM ---
I'm one of the few people that never has had a complaint against GameStop, but I finally do now. I found Etrian Odyssey 1 and 2, with covers and booklets in perfect condition, the only problem is that some fool at GameStop put a "used" sticker on the actual cover for both games. I've been fortunate enough to remove most of the stickers without damaging the covers, but there is still a bit of glue residue. I'm diping my finger in water, then after drying it off a bit, wiping the residue away. Its kind of working for the most part but not as effectively as I had hoped it would. Does anyone here have a better suggestion?

Also, when I save the scanned image, what is the prefered format? When you save an image as a .jpeg, there is a little bit of color saturation. Would a .png be better?

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I think I heard that there is some kind of "Goo gone" stuff over in the US. We don't have such a thing here in the EU sadly but I alyways use a 601 special cleaner for such cleaning jobs. Dries extremly fast and without any residues.

If you scna cover do it in the jpg format please and at at least 300dpi (600dpi is preferred). Please also don't forget to descreen/derasterize!

obishawn:

--- Quote ---Please also don't forget to descreen/derasterize!
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I don't see where I have the option to choose this. Nor the option to set the dpi. Here are two images I've scanned already. I'm not trying to submit them here, I'm hoping you can look at them and tell me if they are of the quality you guys can work with before I go an scan anymore.

This first one, C.O.R.E., for reasons I do not understand, the scanner scanned the entire area under the lid.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/obishawn/CORE.jpg

But, of the 42 games I've scanned so far, most turned out like this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/obishawn/CallofDutyModernWarfareMobilized.jpg

So, if you guys could tell me if these are acceptible, that would be great. And if they aren't then I will look into finding how to set those options.

tiktektak:
Difficult to say if there are problems with the moire effect because the scans are pretty small. Too small.

Scan them in bigger which means more dpi and then we could look. Descreening is pretty important though most of the time.

obishawn:
Thanks! You saved me from having to redo a bunch of scans. As I said, I'm not sure how to configure the settings just yet, but I'll get it figured out and post another to get your feedback. It probably won't be today though.

juan0tron:
Scanning guide... of Doom?

Scroll down to the post about "Moire Effect" to get a good idea what the descreen/desasterize options are for. Scanning in a higher DPI means being able to touch up what the scanner does not, as well as being able to print a quality cover that can look indistinguishable from the real thing given the right paper :) As mentioned above, 300dpi is our minimum but 600dpi is preferred so the cover can be touched up as necessary.

Sorry for any redundancy, and as always any other members can tell you anything I've missed :P

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