KiwiArcader's Work In Progress

[kitsunebi]

I took a look at this and its alot more than the cover that needs editing. The back page has some major rips, and the rest needs cleanup as well. I'll clean up the cover for you in my spare time though. But this IMO does not meet the editing requirments to go up here. Our admins may allow it of course. It's also not the retromags resolution standard of course eigther. Although I appreciate making a CBR version with retormags credit page.

I appreciate the cbr as well as it saves me the trouble of having to do it myself (you already know which format I prefer .) I personally don't care so much about exacting quality standards. I have a fairly high standard for my own scans, and if I donated a mag I'd certainly want it to get top-notch treatment, but regarding scans by other people of mags I have nothing to do with, I'm just happy when they're readable. I'm not printing and framing anything, after all. In fact, a quick edit containing flaws evident in the actual magazine is more appealing to me than a mag that has obviously been meticulously edited but had something done deliberately to it during editing that actually worsens the image, like over-saturation of the colors or too much brightening.

As for the size, I'm curious about how you came to choose 3534px high for every page. Seems like a random number, but perhaps there's a logic to it?

[KiwiArcader]

Haha. No logic at all mate!!

As they were raw scans, after running deskew if required it was/is simply a case of cropping as close to the edges as possible. As I said previously, while E-Day seems to want to resize pages to a specific size I prefer to leave them be unless the size of the PDF exceeds 400MB's in which case I will apply a resize as small as possible to get the file size down.

I personally prefer my scans to look like they came off paper. I used to apply brightness/contrast settings to try and whiten pages etc but the over saturation of colors, especially blacks in dark images, caused me to desist from that. Factor in the brightness levels on tablet screens and overly white magazines become a bit hard on the eyes. Again, I'm old so maybe my eyes don't work as well as younger peoples.

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 134 is available over at OGM. The name was shortened from Computer Games: Strategy Plus somewhere between issue 81 (previously the latest issue I posses) and 124. I had five issues turn on my doorstep the other day from my donator. He has heaps of these but needs help with postage costs (these five cost $22US to ship to New Zealand) so if anyone wants to help get them shipped please feel free to donate over at OGM.

[KiwiArcader]

No-one seems to be doing much about marktrade's great raw scans on Archive.org so I have edited and compiled Play issue 01 which is now available over at OGM.

[Depressor]

Vacation Time)))

P.S. I complete all raw scans of Super Play and take a little break. I back to my manual collections for now)

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 138 is now available over at OGM

[KiwiArcader]

Another of marktrade's raw scans gets a release after a fair amount of editing. Issue 02 of Play was cut nowhere near straight :-)

[KiwiArcader]

marktrade's raw scans of CDi issue 03 have been edited and is available over at OGM. Truly weird issues with editing though .....

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 154 is now available at OGM. Two to go!!!

[KiwiArcader]

Big guns arrive today with PC Gamer (USA) issue 16 now available at OGM. Once again, kudos to marktrade on providing the lovely raw scans

[KiwiArcader]

marktrade's raw scans of CDi issue 04 have been edited and the PDF is now available over at OGM.

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 124 is now available at OGM

 

[KiwiArcader]

CDi issue 05 is now available at OGM. Thanks once again to marktrade for the raw scans on Archive.org

 

[KiwiArcader]

marktrade's scans of Play issue 03 have been edited and the PDF is now available over at OGM.

 

[KiwiArcader]

Computer Games issue 126 is now available over at OGM.

 

[KiwiArcader]

EGM issue 173 released in December 2003 is now available over at OGM. There were a couple of niggles with this issue but it will suffice until Retromags official version is available at some point in the future.

 

[KiwiArcader]

EGM issue 263 has been scanned for the eventual day when it may be made available. You never know when that might be what with the haphazard nature of their business at the present time. Phillyman ... if you want this for archival purposes let me know

 

[KiwiArcader]

EGM issue 174 is now available on OGM.

 

[Sean697]

Keep those EGM's coming ! I know we will eventually need them! (And I'll eventually not have to scan those.)

[KiwiArcader]

PC Gamer (USA) issue 127 has now been edited thanks to marktrade providing the raw scans and is available on OGM.

 

This was a bugger as the publisher cut it really badly so a lot of rotating and cropping was required to get a properly aligned magazine. I personally think it looks really nice and it should do nicely until someone else decides to take it on to create an "official" Retromags version. If you do want to use it here by all means convert it to .cbr and make it available.

 

[kitsunebi]

PC Gamer (USA) issue 127 has now been edited thanks to marktrade providing the raw scans and is available on OGM.

 

This was a bugger as the publisher cut it really badly so a lot of rotating and cropping was required to get a properly aligned magazine. I personally think it looks really nice and it should do nicely until someone else decides to take it on to create an "official" Retromags version. If you do want to use it here by all means convert it to .cbr and make it available.

 

Thanks so much!  I wanted to include this in the post with the other two PC Gamers you edited from marktrade's scans, but it's too new for our cutoff date since PC Gamer is still in publication.

[KiwiArcader]

Well, I hadn't noticed the date on that one so had no idea it was a no-no  

 

In case you missed it I forgot to post that Incite Video Gaming issue 03 was added a couple of days ago in case anyone is into this particular magazine. That's issues 1, 3 & 4 scanned and I have issues 2, 5 - 7 awaiting scanning although the state of my feed/brake rollers may prevent their being scanned until I get a replacement set. The thin paper on US mags really doesn't feed reliably on old rollers that have exceeded their page limit which mine certainly have I am afraid.

 

[KiwiArcader]

PC Gamer (USA) issue 87 has now been edited and is available over at OGM. Thanks once again to marktrade for the raw scans.

 

[KiwiArcader]

Play issue 04 (actually issue 03 if you take the numbering inside the issue) has been edited and is now available. Thanks once again to marktrade for the raw scans. Note that I didn't do a lot of editing. There are so many raw scans needing editing I am more interested in getting them done in bulk rather than spending inordinate amounts of time removing the occasional crease here or there. Feel free to make any of these available here or use them as the basis for additional cleanup if so desired.

 

[marktrade]

Play issue 04 (actually issue 03 if you take the numbering inside the issue) has been edited and is now available. Thanks once again to marktrade for the raw scans. Note that I didn't do a lot of editing. There are so many raw scans needing editing I am more interested in getting them done in bulk rather than spending inordinate amounts of time removing the occasional crease here or there. Feel free to make any of these available here or use them as the basis for additional cleanup if so desired.

 

That's right, I forgot to mention the numbering issue. They started with an unnumbered premiere issue followed by a numbered issue one, but they corrected it a few issues later by skipping a number, so that the number matched the number of issues.

 

You shouldn't feel that you need to edit all these!