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TSOLfan:
--- Quote from: Ektophase on January 31, 2011, 03:49:04 PM ---Here is your die hard and then mine. Like i said before my scanner is over 10 years old, it a Canon CanoScan N650U
I'll agree many of those scans by other people are not that great maybe they forgot descreen or something.
Im not trying to disrespect you or nothing I just think there is something wrong with your scanner, it could be a setting, or maybe its not working correctly, or the thing may just be junk machine.
Do you have access to another scanner like a siblings or friends to test it out?
(again this is a raw scan 300 dpi to match yours with no altering in photoshop)
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No disrespect felt, trust me :)
Tell me what you think about this (my original on top, your's in the middle, and my new one on the bottom):
Seems I can get mine to look exactly like yours. No rescan, or anything. I just added a Photoshop Gaussian Blur at 1.0, and I get exactly what you get.
As I mentioned previously, I can scan at a higher DPI, but the result is just a larger file with more artificial blur to make up for the resolution the original art doesn't have.
At the end of the day, I'd rather have a scan (and scanner) that's on the sharp side (and I know everyone is probably tired of hearing me say this, but what I see in my scans are what I see when I look closely at the original art :)), because it's easy to add blur, not so easy to get rid of it.
Arseen:
I'd say the last picture actually looks bit better/sharper than the second last.
Ektophase:
--- Quote from: Arseen on January 31, 2011, 04:36:20 PM ---I'd say the last picture actually looks bit better/sharper than the second last.
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Really?.. look at the planet and the skyline behind the fox symbol
to me its starting to wash out it does look close in a way but now we are dealing with a low quality jpg that's been compressed twice I think if I started with both original raw copy's and started sharpening and adding contrast etc mine would look a lot better.
on a side note I like starting with 600 dpi, yes it will have more noticeable dots at 100% but when you clean it up at 600 then re-size it, it seems to hide more imperfections and look all around better less moire etc.
I still think pre photoshop your scans should be coming out better.
BadChad:
--- Quote from: Ektophase on January 31, 2011, 05:28:53 PM ---on a side note I like starting with 600 dpi, yes it will have more noticeable dots at 100% but when you clean it up at 600 then re-size it, it seems to hide more imperfections and look all around better less moire etc.
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100% agreed!
TSOLfan:
--- Quote from: Ektophase on January 31, 2011, 05:28:53 PM ---I still think pre photoshop your scans should be coming out better.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Pre-Photoshop, I expect my scans to look like the original art in its truest sense. When I scan, I scan with no options (no descreening, no color adjustment, no contrast adjustment, etc). That way, someone creating any art from my files isn't stuck with any post-processing I did in advanced that they have to try and undo. So, when I scan something that has a halftone print pattern visible, as you can see in the photo I took with a digital camera (which did a halfway decent job masking it with the JPG compression and probably my own motion blur taking the photo):
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I expect to see that in the scan (and I did).
I've never set out to provide perfect art with every bit of dust and scratches cleaned up. I'm scanning to provide truly raw files for someone to do their own post-processing and cleanup. So, if someone is expecting to take any file I scan and turn right around and drop it into a cover, that's probably never going to happen, unless you want something that looks identical to what I scanned :D