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Re: Lots of New Scans and Manuals Added to 'What is the Apple IIGS?'
On 2011-07-13 12:38:58 +0100, wyeo said:
Alex,
I'm close to making in-roads back into the storage area to the box
that is shafted somewhere in the bottom pile in the deep corner when
all these Apple IIGS boxes and stuff are.
Exciting news :-)
Since I am no scanning expert, and my home multi-function printer/
scanner is not the best gadget in the world, and it is over 5 years
old ... I have no idea how to work the coloring and stuff ...
I have to be honest and say I've never used one of those all-in-one
printer/scanner combos, so I don't know what their scanning software is
like. It's possible, like the Epson scanner software I'm more familar
with, that you need to reveal 'Advanced' settings to see all the
options available to you.
I do know that if you have access to a traditional flatbed scanner,
you'll get better quality scans.
And I have no idea how to : "Use a 133dpi de-screen or ‘General’
descreen if your scanner software doesn’t display anything more
specific. Do not use unsharp mask or allow the software to auto
correct colour and tone."
A de-screen will try to remove the half tone dots from the original
print. It's the half tone dots, used at different angles for each of
the four coloured inks (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black or CMYK for short)
that creates the illusion of full colour by a rosette pattern seen by
the human eye at the normal distance away from what you'd be reading.
Great for print, but sucky if you're planning on reprinting the same
image again, because then you get TWO rosette patterns and it starts to
look crappy.
So a de-screen will blur the image a little, blending final colours
together from those found in the dots.
Unsharp mask will, despite what it sounds like, sharpen the image. So
bottom line there is don't allow the scanner to do any sharpening as it
scans. That can all be handled in Photoshop.
I think you're after my original Lost Treasures of Infocom by memory;
I'll get it done next week when I am back home.
Lost Treasures and some re-scans of other rare items you have (from
memory): Out of This World, Gold of the Americas, Spirit of Excalibur
(even if they're not the IIGS versions).
Although I'd be more than happy to mail you my collection and you can
scan all you want, and return it back to me. Are you in Sydney or in
Melbourne nowadays ?
Haha...London nowadays, so that's out of the question at the moment. I
don't have a scanner close to hand, or even a real IIGS :-(
My partner and I are thinking we'll return to Melbourne sometime in late 2012.
- Alex