I would like to have the PSD workfile...you just upload it here?
On 2017-05-03 18:06:07 +0000, symm said:
> You're welcome to my PSD work file if you want it.
>
> I just chose this issue as there is no clean scan reprint or original
> that I can find except a low res B&W version. That and it had so much
> damage it was hard to read.
> I don't have any plans for the other issues in the series so feel free
> to do what you want.
>
>
> On 2017-05-03 15:31:36 +0000, doctorleap said:
>
>> Thank you wow!!!! I read everything on a 12.9 iPad pro using Chunky for
>> the old stuff and Comic Zeal for new stuff. Chunky has the ability to
>> whiten pages, sharpen and add a bit of contrast. Your work on this book
>> looks fantastic!!!! I'm pretty good with Photoshop, I'm willing to
>> help. If you want to tell me which books to work on. All-Stars is my
>> favorite GA book...
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-05-01 16:25:33 +0000, symm said:
>>
>>> 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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