Hey @Phillyman, I think it's time to change our tagline.
"Retromags: You Better Bring A Spare Pair of Underwear!"
"Retromags: Making You Shit Yourself With Joy Since 2009!"
Let's get it on the t-shirts ASAP!
I don't know if you, @MigJmz, got together with @dablais so you two could bombard us with 7 or so Play Magazines back-to-back -- but it was a nice surprise. Thanks to you both. (oh, the smiley face has a cowboy hat because I'm in Texas, so, you know...). And thanks also to @TheRedEye since they seem to be the ones donating all these issues. Great job all around.
Well, we did. Problem is, they got confiscated back in 2014 after @E-Day used them in an unauthorized wet t-shirt contest in Ontario which he "won" by virtue of being the only participant.
Yeah, I thought a couple time of doing that, but it's really difficult to remember where those add where. Sometimes, resolution is not the same, format could differ or not even scanned from the same scanner which would show when you look at the magazine. For these reasons, I always prefer doing the magazine as a whole. Most of the time I use an ADF, so it's quicker this way, but for oversized magazines, I purchased a flatbed since ADF are almost nonexistent and the one or two model that exist are in multiples of thousands of $$$.... so I need to be patient when scanning those.
For years I always wondered... do you know if anybody reuses ads they scanned and resized previously. Like EGM might have the same 2-page ad for Devil May Cry 2, GTA Vice City, and Shinobi -- all games that might have the same ad across 5 issues in a row during the holidays. If the magazine quality is roughly the same, why scan and resize the same collection of ads across all those issues, especially when you have 70-100 pages of ads in certain mags. I thought it would be a way to save you guys (and gals) time. But I never took the time to confirm if the pixel size and layout was exactly the same. Would this really save time, or can you enact changes across multiple pages, so its not a big deal?
Haaa, the first three were my own scans, these last four were from TheRedEye. I just realized they were left open to edit... I just decided to do all them during the weekend.
The future one will be probably one every 3 days, they are quite long to scan. I need to go page by page on a flatbed....
More to come!
Danny
@dablais, you son of a bastard. You release like one Play magazine every 3 days, just to keep me coming back. Then you blast us with 4 issues in one hour? Now I have to clean my pants because you made me shit them with joy. Pure joy.
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