Scans Needed! (Archive)

[Teppic]

Rain, there is an upload site / missing card tracker (but it is currently broken):
http://www.slightlymagic.net/contrib/

Until it is fixed, it is fine to post the scans like you've been doing.

[Rain]

Yep, I've mentioned the contribution centre in my first post. I just thought that there is some other convenient way to do things while it's broken.
Well then, keep calm and go on with scanning
Thanks for the info!
Have you taken a look at my scans btw? Are they appropriate?

[skibulk]

@Rain

We usually only need 600 DPI, but can you rescan your cards (all together) at 1200 DPI, png or tiff? There's some patterning in your scans but I'm not sure if it is the result of JPG compression or not. This new scan will reveal if your scanner is usable. Thanks!

[woogerboy21]

tenminutegod, where do you upload images? Everyone just says "uploaded" so I suppose it must be some kind of shared ftp everyone knows about of something like that? I could do the uploading myself as well if I knew where to.

Meanwhile I got Polymorphous Rush - make it 2 missing
(again, fill in the space with a dot)

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dropbox com/s/vfokggc04w4hvwj/Polymorphous%20Rush%20-%20raw%20scan%201200%20dpi.jpg

The image here looks good to me. You guys can double check but I don't see any vertical or horizontal issue's or fine line problems I've seen in others. Are there other images submitted by "Rain" and what scanner model do you own?

@skibulk
What are you seeing in his/her images?

sample_processed | Open

[skibulk]

It varies from card to card. We want the best quality input possible, so lets still see if we can improve them.

We need tokens, ads, and backs scanned. Anybody care to create a list of what's needed using ABU games?

[Rain]

@woogerboy21
I've posted a link to the archive with four cards on the previous page.
My scanner is Canon CanoScan 8800F. I scan film at 2400 with it and I find the quality to be quite satisfactory. For the price of course.
And I am a "he"

@skibulk
Unfortunately I no longer have both gods - I've borrowed them from a friend and scanned directly to jpeg. But to be completely honest I fail to see any sensible difference. What exactly is wrong? Maybe I could come up with some ideas as well.
Jpegs were saved in Photoshop CS6 at 10 quality and "Baseline Optimized" setting. That should be enough for a decent file but maybe I am wrong with my settings?
But! I've pulled Pheres-Band Warchief today and scanned it straight out of the booster.

I'm not putting them into an archive for the files are almost 30 MB each.
Here are TIFFs with zip compression of the cards including the new one:

(replace the space with a dot, you know the drill)

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dropbox com/sh/nsjb2wjbvcjwtag/AAD9rJrBjSRUoANJPQVgLrIka#/

[skibulk]

The 600 dpi jpg you posted before definately had compression problems. There's not much difference between the 1200 tiff and the 1200 jpg, so you can do 1200 jpgs going forward, they're usable.

[Rain]

I beg your pardon but I have scanned and uploaded only 1200 dpi images
I've even double-checked it right now.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to question anyone's skill or anything but... Are you sure you've watched those images at 100% size? It's just the last thing you said that made me stumble upon that thought no matter how silly the thought itself might be.
No offence meant, not at all!
There surely is some patterning if you allow your image viewer or browser resize them in any manner, no doubt in that.

[skibulk]

Ah crap, I had the dropbox preview. Well you can try scanning at 600dpi then, might save everybody bandwidth if they're usable at that size.

[Rain]

Meh, modern software is sometimes just a bit too smart
Okay then, I'll try next bunch of cards at 600 dpi.
M15 probably if I'm not the one to find Pharika, God of Affliction. Which (since we settled all the issues) is the only JOU card we have left to find!

Thanks for taking your time to see through the issues and images! Glad I can contribute to the cause.

[Teppic]

I *think* I have all the JOU tokens and backs. I will check and scan tonight.

[woogerboy21]

I just ordered an entire set of JOU so if we don't get the last card by the time I receive it in the mail we should get it then

[Teppic]

According to ABU games, here are the JOU tokens and Tips and Tricks:

Fronts:
- Ajani Goldmane
- Bestow
- Constellation
- Deck Percentage
- Devotion
- Heroic
- Inspired
- Monstrosity
- Rarity
- Strive
- The Nyxborn
- Xenagos and Elspeth
- Sphinx token
- Zombie token
- Minotaur token
- Hydra token
- Spider token
- Snake token

Backs:
- All Things Magic
- Fat Packs
- Intro Packs
- Magic Comic Books
- Planeswalker Points
- Friday Night Magic
- MTG Facebook
- MTG merchandise
- Pick, Plot, Play
- ProTour
- Magic 2015
- MTG Heros Path
- Magic eBooks
- Event Decks
- Ultra Pro
- Magic Online

I had everything except these three fronts:
- Monstrosity
- Xenagos and Elspeth
- Zombie token

Scans are (slowly) uploading now.

[Rain]

Here, I have Monstrosity and Xenagos and Elspeth. If I am correct. Am I?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rco8n380g36i ... IfkPWwDfBa

(woot, I can post normal links now!)

[Teppic]

Rain, yep, that's them. Thanks.

And I just remembered that tenminutegod and extreme had already processed all the tokens (viewtopic.php?f=15&t=452&start=135#p152122), so that should be JOU complete!