Tri-Color Brian

I think I forgot to show this...

Here's my latest Four Colors...I never knew Donald was a surfer...

Huh!...I bought a couple Four Colors today...here's one of them...

Maybe Terry doesn't advertise like he used to. Remember when he used to do those TV commercials and the announcer would say, "Here's Terry O'neil and his dog Spot"? He used to always end the commercial with a jingle that said "Go see Cal Con, Go see Cal Con, Go see Cal Con". I loved those, except for all the used cars. I don't know what they were doing in a comic con commercial...

Can't remember if I've posted these before or not, so here they are...

I never knew Ed in person, only from an ad he placed in the old CBG in the 90s. It's always sad to lose a member of our community though. R.I.P Ed...

Because I don't know if a new dirt cheap scanner will do a better job. There's a whole discussion on scanners and what they can do in the Baker thread. I just don't want to deal with buying a new one. I'm learning how to manipulate mine better, and I'm also learning more about my photoshop, so the books are looking a lot better and I enjoy working on the images. And really, I haven't seen anyone show a scan on here that was exactly how the book was supposed to look. I think we all have the same problems.

I know what you mean. I spent a lot of time with that book in photoshop to get the colors as accurate as I could. My scanner just doesn't do the job. The Haunt 17 was a real nightmare too...

Re-scanned some of my ECs...got the colors much closer to reality, if not right on...

Mine is an Epson V500 PHOTO model. If the fantastic colors you refer to are on the latest Photostream pics, those are the re-scans and tweaked colors. Some of them are still off, but close enough. Great info BTW. I appreciate your expertise.

My scanner is over 15 years old. I don't know if it has lost any ability over time or not. It has a professional mode, but I don't know how to use a lot of it and I'm too lazy to look up the instructions on line. In the beginning I scanned at only 72dpi, so I'm re-scanning a lot of books. At 300 dpi it seems to miss some of the color, translating it into grays. So, (and this is for @MattTheDuck too) after scanning I put the image into Photoshop Elements to correct as much color as I can. Sometimes I cannot match some colors perfectly (like DC candy apple red), but I get 90% of it right. Then I put the image into photo files by publisher, title, or genre, and also into my Flickr albums, which anyone can look at if you click on any of my pics here. it's a pain, but nice to have a record of what you have. I'm thinking of just taking pics with my camera and see if that is more accurate. I did it with magazines and they came out pretty good, but I still had to adjust a little in photoshop.

So, to give you an idea of how much a scanner can screw up your books...here's a before and after of one issue... Before: After Re-scan:

I've been re-scanning a lot of my GA books, since my scanner botched the job the first time (gotta scan at 300 dpi). I was amazed at how much color it missed. Here's a few Bakers...still not 100% perfect, but much better...

Mine is missing the top staple...I found that out when I sold it to a boardie. He sent it back. He didn't seem to like that...and it taught me to check the staples...