On 2017-05-01 10:32:18 +0000, Buck said:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:01:24 -0700, symm <symm@nowhere.org> posted:
> "Re: Symm - Test Page-All-Star Comics 001 (1940) [1/1] layer_16.jpg -
> yEnc"
>
>> That's always the challenge for me... how much to tweak and how
>> "new/clean" to make the pages look. I've been going for an intact aged
>> page look with very subtle color correction, but that just my
>> taste/choice on this restoration.
>>
>> I did notice a loss of detail in your version, particularly blue
>> background areas. It also appears green tinted on my screen (non-retina
>> MBP LCD). But again it's all a matter of choice and the device viewed
>> on.
>>
>> I can post more WIP versions as it progresses or even the PSD file if
>> you're interested. My current plan was just to post the "finished" (is
>> this type of project ever really finished?) product. Or if it takes too
>> long a cleaned up WIP version just needing additional area
>> healing/repair as that takes the longest.
>>
>> Sidenote: these old multi-story books always seem to me to inidicate a
>> lack of standardized blank art pages from the publisher as the aspect
>> ratio of the panel area of the pages deviates by feature. Challenges,
>> challenges...
>
> Seeing that you have already started it, it's all yours. I was just
> seeing how much it would take to repair and some what clean it up.
> Besides my queue is so full it would be about a year before I got to
> it. As what happened to the Phantom Lady posts from about a year ago.
>
> I've been trying different methods of removing the yellowish/brownish
> cast in most older scan and they all seem to wash out the lighter
> blues. One other problem I have is that the image appears lighter when
> viewed in Photshop then when viewed out of Photoshop.
Color correction is practically a bridge too far for me. Too dependent
on display used, whether the image is scaled, software viewer used
(especially with scaling), etc. One thing I have done is separate areas
of the image to cleanup page "browning"
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