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Title: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SuperPlay on January 29, 2012, 01:53:21 AM

Today I bring you a re-upload of the scan I did of PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994.

Hosted by OldGameMags: http://tinyurl.com/pdoscmv

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Ji-L87 on January 29, 2012, 03:22:15 AM

Awesome!
I've been eyeing issues of PC Engine Fan on ebay recently, wanting to see more of it. Thanks a bunch! : D

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Bernie on January 29, 2012, 03:22:19 AM

:)  Nice!  More more more...  heehee..  I so greedy....

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Ji-L87 on January 29, 2012, 04:40:48 AM

Looking through it, man, I could buy an issue just for the images alone <3

The scans look very professional by the way, how did you scan it? Cutting out all pages and then scanning them one by one or something? :p

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: shubibiman on January 29, 2012, 04:51:29 AM

Thanks for sharing ;)

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: roflmao on January 29, 2012, 05:22:52 AM

Awesome!  Thanks!  Downloading it now.

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Bonknuts on January 29, 2012, 06:03:15 AM

Yeah, what's your secret for these perfect scans? I have about 3-4 PCE FAN mags that I'd like to contribute as well.

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SignOfZeta on January 29, 2012, 06:24:14 AM

Nice!

EDIT: Link doesn't work. :(

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SuperPlay on January 29, 2012, 06:54:09 AM

Wow that was a quick down by Zshare. Re-upped to mediafire

http://www.mediafire.com/?w1s6qbjzy4jpmwb

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SuperPlay on January 29, 2012, 07:14:23 AM

My secret is hours of messing around ;-) LOL.  I tested different clean-ups, recolouring and sharpening etc. however in the end I got the best results by doing the minimal.  During testing a de-speckle did make the images look cleaner however I forgot to apply this to my batch job!


Preparations:

1) Picked a random magazine

2) I opened the staples and then carefully removed all of the pages.  This was not one of the bound spines magazines as a lot of the later ones are.

3) Made plenty of coffee :@)


Scanning:

I used a Canon LIDE 100 and the inbuilt scanner driver that comes with windows 7 set to:

500DPI: As the Windows driver does not perform de-screening 500 dpi reduces the crazing effect

TIFF file format: Each image was saved as a TIFF as you can perform multiple editing actions / saves to this file type with minimal/no quality loss.  Each page was around 60MB.

I used a piece of black card between the folded page to reduce bleeding from the reverse side of the page.


Once each page was scanned I used photoshop to:

* Rotate the pages to the correct orientation
* Straighten up the scans
* Crop the images to size

I then used a photoshop batch job to:

* Reduce the resolution to 300DPI
* Save as JPG (Quality Level 1 - Low)

Last but not least I then used Adobe Acrobat pro to create the PDF using the default settings.

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: esteban on January 29, 2012, 09:14:47 AM

Hey SuperPlay, I PM'd you :)

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Necromancer on January 30, 2012, 03:50:22 AM

Downloading now and looking forward to later perusal.  Thanks, man!

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: nodtveidt on January 30, 2012, 04:16:18 AM

...tittens. :)

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Arkhan on January 30, 2012, 04:17:48 AM

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Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Nando on January 30, 2012, 05:24:41 AM

DUDE!!! AWESOME! Thanks!

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Bonknuts on January 30, 2012, 12:08:59 PM

What other issues do you have? I have issues 2 and 8 for 1994.

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Tatsujin on January 30, 2012, 12:17:31 PM

Yeah awesome job dude. So clean. Could be directly feed back to a reprint :D

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SuperPlay on January 31, 2012, 07:17:48 AM

Thanks for the comments Guys.

Bonknuts: I have PC Engine Fan Issues 1995 12 and 1994 12.

I have a selection of 10 Mags without spines, I may put up a vote to see which one I should scan next.

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SuperPlay on April 23, 2012, 06:59:59 AM

I have re-upload the scan I did of PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994.

A big thank you for esteban for hosting the file.

Hopefully I should be able to finish and upload my next scan, PC Engine Fan Issue 12 December 1994 by the end of the week.

Enjoy!

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: Nando on April 23, 2012, 07:05:53 AM

way too cool, thanks for doing that

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: SuperPlay on October 14, 2012, 02:49:22 AM

Re-uploaded and removed password from rar

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: esteban on October 14, 2012, 06:19:47 AM

HELL YES! Thank you (x3), SuperPlay. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)

http://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm?col=pub&val=pce

Title: Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan
Post by: fraggore on October 15, 2012, 08:11:55 AM

thanks mate