New Releases - 08/23

[Kiwi]

Also incoming from him is The Player #04.

[Kiwi]

PlayStation Official (AUS) #56 is now available. Scanning the massive poster was a pita

[kitsunebi]

Famitsu #142 and the single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" were released within an handful of days of one another.  One of them would define a generation and have a global impact on an entire industry.  The other is available HERE.

[Kiwi]

PlayStation Official (AUS) #57 is now available. Yet another massive poster that was a pita to scan.

[kitsunebi]

Yet another massive poster that was a pita to scan.

Posters are the worst.  No one even appreciates them, since regardless of its size, a scanned poster usually looks no different than any other regular page when viewed on a digital display.

I refuse to scan them if they're over a certain size.  Dengeki G's puts out giant posters that are the size of 16 A4 pages.  No way am I spending hours stitching together 16 pages just to make an image that will look like any other normal page in the CBR.

[Kiwi]

These were something like 8 A4 pages in size. I split them down the middle then fed them through the fi-5650c A3 scanner but it's almost impossible to feed something that big through straight. Did the best I can with the enthusiasm level I could muster up for it ....

[Kiwi]

The April 1990 issue of Bits & Bytes is now available. There were four staples holding this together. FOUR!! No wonder they went bust. Probably bankrupted themselves on the cost of the staples 

[ChickenMan]

I use Image Composite Editor from Microsoft to stitch all my images together were needed, does it in seconds and its free.
Get it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/

[kitsunebi]

I use Image Composite Editor from Microsoft to stitch all my images together were needed, does it in seconds and its free.
Get it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/

This tool is 100% useless for stitching together debound pages scanned with an ADF, at least in every single instance I tried it on.  It just gives a message saying that the images can't be stitched, and to make sure the images overlap.  That's the problem - in order for it to work, there needs to be part of the image in each file which is identical (an overlap), which of course there won't be when scanning separate pages.  I'm really not sure how it could be used for magazine scans to stitch two-page spreads or posters...but it would almost certainly require using a large flatbed scanner to scan a page and at least a part of another page at the same time for each part of the image to be stitched.  When dealing with a poster made up of 8-16 pages, that sounds like more trouble than it's worth.  Regardless, I don't intend to ever own an A3 flatbed, so the point is moot.

[ChickenMan]

Yes I can see your problem as there needs to be a significant overlap between scans, I use an A3 flatbed but then the largest I've ever done is an A0 size and many A1 & A2 sizes.

[kitsunebi]

You've got less than a day to download ToyFare #9 and Dengeki G's Magazine #10 before September's shiny new thread pops up this one is yesterday's news, so get crackalackin'.

ToyFare #9 is available HERE.

Dengeki G's Magazine #10 is available HERE.