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On 2018-03-28 05:16:56 +0000, John Smallberries said:
> On 2018-03-28 04:44:14 +0000, symm said:
>
>> Thanks for the reconstruction. Did you add any image processing to the
>> pages from "Archie Americana Series - Best of the Forties Book 2"
>> (besides color/layers adjustment)? My scan looks much closer to a
>> digital rip (near-solid colors, no "newsprint dots", also slightly
>> higher res), while your looks closer to classic 4 color print.
>>
>> What other scans do you have of this series? I only have these
>> near-digital rips (scans of premium paper reprints? digital rips of
>> commericial scans?):
>>
>> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Fifties Book 1 (1992 Archie Comic
>> Publications).cbr
>> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Forties Book 1 (1991 Archie Comic
>> Publications).cbz
>> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Forties Book 2 (2002)
>> (GreenGiant-DCP).cbr
>> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Nineties Book 2 (2011)
>> (GreenGiant-DCP).cbr
>> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Sixties Book 1 (1995)
>> (GreenGiant-DCP).cbr
>>
>> Obviously your scan is a better match for reparing Laugh #36. I thought
>> I'd play around with a further "restored" version of the issue for
>> grins.
>
> I darkened Page 3 a bit (it looked like the scan has captured a bit of
> glare), and on both pages I changed the paper (bg) color to match some
> of the other pages. The idea was only so that you could read the
> missing bits without it being too jarring (remember that Ant-Man issue
> on which I restored the paper color?). The new recoloring was so
> different that I didn't try to patch stuff. Some day someone will post
> a nice C2C, but this suits me until then.
>
> As for the others, I have:
>
> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Forties 1
> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Forties 2
> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Fifties 1
> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Sixties 1
> Archie Americana Series - Best of the Nineties 2
>
> so we have the same ones.
I noticed the color changes but the scan looks different. I'll post my
copy so you can see.
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