On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:29:40 -0700, symm <symm@nowhere.org> posted:
"Re: Worth the effort? Continue restoring damaged areas? - "All-Star
Comics 001 (1940) (c2c) (restored WIP).cbz" yEnc (1/99)"
>On 2017-04-28 20:49:57 +0000, Shazam! said:
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>> My feary is that if you derive pleasure and satisfaction from
>> performing the restorations with TLC, then you should continue, but if
>> the experience is or becomes painful, tedious and/or boring, then you
>> should probably give it up.
>>
>> Shazam!
>
>Thanks for the feedback. As usual the few pages are for larks to figure
>out how best to restore/repair. I enjoy the challenge.
>
>But 60+ pages gets tedious especially given the damage that cut through
>basically every page. I'm still trying to figure out how it was damaged
>in that manner. Nails that dragged/cut through?
>
>Thus the public query. I've posted a few restorations, but seldom get
>any feedback indicating whether they are useful to anyone else. I
>wasn't "feeling it" for this project if no one else was interested. The
>relatively low resolution of the scan and effort needed made it
>questionable that I would ever finish it for just myself. I have a few
>other projects that are similiarly "in progress" for a year or more.
>
>I've gotten enough feedback on this book to make it worthwhile to try
>to push through. I have all the borders and space between the panels
>cleaned up for the first ~40 pages and have repaired the tears in about
>a dozen pages. And yes I replaced/repaired the DC logo in the
>centerfold. :)
>
>At least the B&W scan is complete (if also low res), which helps
>determine what's missing in the damaged areas.
>
>It's going to be lengthy project but I suspect I will see it through to
>completion. Worst case, I'll post my final work in progress in case
>anyone else wants to continue the effort.
>
I've added it to my queue to work on at a later date, based on the
size of the queue. I want to see what I can do with it, if anything.
After a quick look, replacing the missing/damaged text will be the
challenge.
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