Feel like editing some scans? Come on in!

[E-Day]

So I finally finished scanning the 207 items listed in this post from October 6. I edited and released the Mario Kart 8 guide today, so there are 206 pending items. The thing is, I have no interest in now editing all of these after scanning them. I have other projects I want to work on that I have been neglecting to get all this stuff scanned and I would like to focus on those now, including new graphics that Philly man requested for the site.

So for anyone who has access to the Retromags NAS (or anyone interested in editing who will require access), all the scans are living in /Team/Unedited Scans (Awaiting)/2024 E-Day Scans. Also living there is an Excel file with all the scans listed, who scanned them (me) who donated them (for proper credit) and what region they go in.

All the scans are named properly as far as page numbering. Several Computer Gaming World issues are missing pages, so the missing pages file has been put in the right spots with the right file name to keep everything in order.

Also included are the Photoshop actions I use when editing. One is for the Fujitsu scanner that spits out JPG files and the other is for my Epson flatbed which produces TIF files. The colour correction should need little tweaking if any, but I provided them more for the save functions. Each action will Crop to the bounding box when you hit F2, and hitting F3 will save the file to the original location (giving you a cropped but uncorrected scan), then does the colour corrections, resizes the image to 3260 pixels tall and saves it (for a full size scan) in a folder, and then resizes to 2200 pixels tall and saves it in another location for the standard release size. I do this in case we ever want to release full size scans, and also to save all the cropping and touchups before colour correction so that we have good scans to work from if we ever lose everything and need to create new files or if someone wants to fix the colour correction on the current release. Use them if you want or don't; but they are there for anyone who wants them.

If you pick something to edit, maybe put your name at the beginning of the folder so that others can see you've taken it and work isn't duplicated.

If there are issues with a scan, like many pages with dust lines that I didn't catch, let me know. I am keeping all the debound magazines for a while just in case someone needs a rescan of something. I don't want to keep them forever though

[MigJmz]

unedited mags you say? 

[dablais]

Thanks E-Day for scanning all of them!  My trip to Ottawa was worth it!   I will surely give a hand for the editing part! 

Edited yesterday at 01:35 AM by dablais

[kitsunebi]

7 hours ago, E-Day said:

I do this in case we ever want to release full size scans

I've been releasing 300dpi-equivalent* scans for years.  Retromags is literally the only major source of scans still releasing them at resolutions as low as 2200px (around 200dpi).  I'm not advocating releasing 600dpi scans here, but I think the time for everyone to move to 300dpi-equivalent is long overdue. (I say this fully expecting backlash from some members who value small filesizes above all else and couldn't care less what the resolution is so long as it's readable.)

*I use the term 300dpi-equivalent since we're talking about the pixel dimensions of a scan if it were scanned at 300dpi and left unchanged.  Once a page has been resized -at all- it is no longer qualified to be referred to using DPI and should only be described in pixels (i.e. 2200px high).  But most mags scanned at 300dpi are between 3000-3200px high, so most mags saved at those pixel dimensions are 300dpi-equivalent, even if they were scanned at 600dpi before resizing.

(Speaking of 300dpi, literally every single mag on that list from the UK - the PC Gamers and Edges - is already available in 300dpi scans at OGM.  Uploading them here/the Internet Archive will be useful for the people who don't want to join OGM, but you might as well make them competitive and release them at comparable resolutions.  When I scan something that's already been scanned, I do it with the goal of having my scan be the superior of the two - otherwise what's the point?  At least, that's my point of view.)