To Re-scan Or Not?

[meppi]

I've got a question for all of you.

I have noticed ever since I switched over to my new system and have begone using Photoshop instead of Photostudio that my scans look quite a bit better than the did say a year ago.

This is partly because I can see the spots and discolorations much better now than I could on my 6 year old LCD screen.

But also due to the new program I'm using, which saves the JPGs at a better quality without doubling or tripling the file size.

I have just purchased another copy of the Official Sega Saturn Magazine issue 1, since my original copy had a huge amount of discoloration on the white pages.

So I've started rescanning the first couple of pages and I would like to hear if it's actually worth all the effort or not.

So here is a CBZ file of the first 10 pages side by size. First the old version from september 2007, and then the new page which I just did.

Rescan test

It's a direct link, so don't worry about the cats.

I believe there's a big difference in quality, but I'm a bit anal when it comes to these kinds of things, so I'm looking for more input.

It will take quite a while to rescan all my magazines which I have done over the last year, but if it's worthwhile, I don't have a problem with it.

My new releases won't suffer from the rescans, as they would still remain my nr.1 priority.

I would simply do a couple of pages here and there in between other issues, whenever I don't feel like continuing on a certain magazine for a couple of days.

[meppi]

oops forgot to turn the cats off...

Oh well, they are off now.

[modgeezer]

All of your scans are very high quality!! On my 19 lcd there is not much difference between the old and the new. The new is better but for me its not enough of a difference to warrant a rescan.

[meppi]

Well, thank you.

The things I'm noticing a lot now on my old scans are the yellow smudges on white pages and lightened parts, dust and spots on especially black pages.

As well as the colors which are a bit to light and washed out compared to the actual magazines.

[fusoya]

If you still have magazines which have not been scanned at all, I would make those your priority, over rescanning issues which are already very presentable. Honestly, I don't know why you'd even want to rescan them when the first versions look almost perfect already.

I've rescanned two Nintendo Power issues, but in both cases I did not scan the original one, and a horrible job was done on them (almost unreadable pages which are crooked or cropped wrong), so much that I wanted a replacement version ASAP.

[boxinabox]

Man, I have so many magazines to scan but I have this early 90s scanner that scans only black and white