On 2018-06-17 00:50:53 +0000, John Smallberries said:
> On 2018-06-16 20:21:27 +0000, symm said:
>
>> On 2018-06-16 15:25:15 +0000, John Smallberries said:
>>
>>> Is this you using a new scanner?
>>>
>>> In PS, trying bringing your blue white point down to around 215. It
>>> clears away the yellow haze and helps the (apparent) contrast.
>>>
>>> Also, in PS, I can still see the guides you're using for your master page.
>>
>> New/old scanner. I went with the used 9800XL A3 scanner. Getting used
>> to the Microtek software. To be honest, the scan ooks like the paper...
>> old, so I didn't use any filters/tweaks in the scanner settings. I take
>> it you're recommending color correction post-processing in PS?
>>
>> Weird that the guides show in PS. In Simple Comic, Preview, etc. they
>> are not shown. I wasn't aware that these were stored in the JPG. Even
>> running through an image (size) optimizer doesn't remove the metadata
>> for the guides. Weird. You can "Clear Guides" in PS though if you're
>> viewing there. I'll hide/clear before bulk exporting next time.
>>
>> I had a backlog of comics to scan,, but a lot of them were released by
>> Titansfan, drake, comicscastle in the last few months. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> Newsprint yellows with age, of course, and they're your scans so you
> can do what you like. Opinions differ -- some scanners like their file
> to resemble the copy they scanned, regardless of how it may look. I
> prefer to get comics to look as they might have when new (within
> reason, of course). I built a one-step action to deal with the yellow
> cast.
>
> I have seen professional files (CD covers, book covers) with jpgs that
> preserved the guides. I built hiding the guides into the color
> adjustment action but it did not take. As long as they can't been seen
> in the final cbz, it probably doesn't matter, but I thought you'd want
> to know. I suppose you can't even see them if you're not using PS. I
> saw nothing in the metadata that seems to relate to them, so maybe it's
> a proprietary Adobe thing.
>
> As far as being beaten to the post by others, I know what you mean. I
> have had to avoid Charltons altogether because Titansfan is such a
> scanning machine. More than once I've had him post something that
> sitting on my desk in the queue. I'm sticking mostly to Gold Key now
> because almost no one else is doing them at the moment.
>
> One Archie you could keep your eyes out for is Laugh Comics 129 (Dec
> 1961). I've put together an archive of all the Archie super-hero
> stories from that era of Pep and Laugh, and that's the only one that's
> missing. There is a scan of the comic, but it doesn't have the Fly Girl
> story in it. Just as there are scans of other issues that have only the
> superhero story. Go figure.
I did a quick test with unzipping Archie's Joke Book Magazine 095,
opening a page with PS, "Clear Guides", save, close & re-open... the
guidelines were no longer present in the image.
I would think batch processing the images with this scripted would work
if it's an issue.
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