On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:14:12 -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 2017-04-30 11:02:43 +0000, Buck said:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:04:53 -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 2017-04-29 11:38:46 +0000, Buck said:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> As I'm not terribly artistic, the text is actually easier for me. The
>>> damaged art is harder for me unless it's a flat color or straight
>>> lines. :)
>>
>> I'm not artistic at all. That's why I do things like restoration. If
>> you're using Photoshop, try the Spot Healing Brush or the Patch Tool.
>> If you use the Spot Healing Brush don't make the brush size much
>> bigger then the repair area and make sure Content-Aware is selected.
>
>Yep, alot of content-aware fill, healing tool, clone stamp and copy to
>layer/reposition/resize/etc-> merge down. Haven't used the patch tool
>in a while. May be time to experiment again.
>
>I have almost alll pages cleaned for the border areas/page background
>and another half dozen pages repaired. Slow but progress...
>
You're right about the SLOW progress on some of them. The 100 page
ones seem to take forever to finish.
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