Scanning strips

[Donald Markstein]

Olivier:
>>            (Yes, I intend to scan a few strips, but it takes a lot of
time to scan them--
>>            the image rarely runs parallel to the paper so it take several
scans to get it
>>            right-- and to clean them up-- as sharp and as true b&w as
possible , not
>>            fuzzy dark gray & yellowish white)

Get newer software! Most graphics software nowadays allows you to rotate the
image in fractions of a degree, so you can straighten it out without taking
the time to re-scan it.

As for cleaning up the images -- I take the point of view that the
computerized image never contains truer information about the original, than
when it first comes out of the scanner. Everything else -- brightening it
up, adjusting the contrast, de-specking, etc. -- is something YOU add. Of
course, you want it to look as good as possible, but if you concentrate on
just getting the material out, the person downloading it can do the add-ons
for himself, to his own taste.

I have the Abbeville Press Mickey and Goofy books, and would very much like
to read the Gottfredson stories NOT reprinted in them. Fuzzy dark gray and
yellowish white are fine -- I can clean them up myself easily enough, if I
want to. I appreciate all efforts to make those classic stories available to
modern readers.

Quack, Don

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