Fairly new collector....dumb questions....

[Thanos_7575]

Dont mind me....i'm trying to figure out how to post pics on here.....This is my Gauntlet page.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=202516&GSub=11546

[Thanos_7575]

I went ahead and bought a scanner big enough to do most of my pages.....wish me luck

[WiseGuyX]

Anyone try a Neat Scanner? They can scan 11" wide and up to 30" long.

 

http://store.neat.com/index/page/product/product_id/106/product_name/NeatDesk

[Greedo]

That is a great page!

[ashrael]

If you have a decent camera with manual focus and good lighting, you don't really need a scanner. I use my camera and I think they turn out well: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=767733&GSub=115406

 

(but if you are going to buy something, just get the scanner)

[Thanos_7575]

1}----Not sure about that Neat scanner. It looks like it feeds the page through it and I think it might catch on any word ballons or stats that maybe on the page.

 

2}-- Your right about the camera...works great and is more practical because your not limited on size.....by the way...great Thanos page. If Doug says its awsome then it must be awsome. I went way out of my normal comfort zone$$$ on that Infinity page of mine...but its worth it

[CollectingFool]

I've tried using a camera and nothing beats a large format scanner for both quality and convenience. I have a Mustek and it's not that slow, a few seconds per scan. It seems like a long time when you're scanning a huge pile of pages but unless you have the DPI really high it doesn't take very long. As for scanning larger pieces, for most of them it just takes a little patience and some photo-editing software. I use a 10 year old version of Photoshop and was able to scan this no problem. Art area is 23 x 35. I have scanned a lot of strip art and I find it immensely helpful.

 

 

Larger image:

http://www.collectingfool.com/published/fosterh-princevaliant1960-02-14.jpg

 

I have very little patience and never took the time to learn anything about Photoshop that wasn't immediately picked just by looking at the commands. Anyone who actually took a few minutes to learn what they were doing could do much better.