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As usual, sir, stunning, stunning work! I am indebted and the rest of yuz should be, too! 
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Posted: |
Feb 15, 2012 - 1:02 PM
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By: |
Scott H.
(Member)
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First Before begining,
1. clean your monitor & scanner
2. callibrate your monitor & scanner. I use SpyderExpress for monitor and VueScanPro with an IT8 target card for scanner. I tried SilverFast SE (which I liked) but the version that enables scanner callibration/profiling is way too expensive.
3. I like to callibrate my monitor every couple of weeks.
This is my typical work flow (I'm still learning/trying to get better):
1. Scan cover with a black piece of paper in background at 1200dpi and 16bit (or higher) Adobe RGB color.
2. In Photoshop, level and crop scan so that only a small portion of the black background remains around the cover image
3. Descreen with Sattva Descreen 5.0 plugin (http://www.descreen.net/eng/soft/descreen/descreen.htm). This filter is worth every penny.
4. Apply slight noise reduction (I use Noiseware Pro).
5. Adjust color levels to match cover. I usually shift the RGB black level upwards a bit to compensate for my scanner's bright captures. Sometimes I'll adjust the reg, green, blue when needed.
5. Crop image so that it is square, preserving as much of the cover as possible. In many cases that means I'll have some 'excess' space on the borders on top and bottom. I use clone-stamp tool and/or Content Aware Fill (in Photoshop CS5) to 'continue' the image and fill the borders
6. Zoom image to at least 50% and use Clone Stamp to clean up images. I'll vary brush hardness and opacity depending on the job
7. If a background or some other part of image should be one color (especially white), I'll select that area and use Paintbucket/Pencil. Then I'll smooth the edges of that area with clone stamp (with very low hardness.
8. After image is completey fixed, save as tiff file file.
9. Resize resolution from 1200 to 300 dpi, then resize image to 1400 x 1400
10. Sharpen image with Smart Sharpen (lately I've been using 0.4 ~ 0.5px at 50%).
11. Change image mode from 16 to 8 bit.
12. Save as jpeg (no compression)
13. Go back to step 9, resize to 1000 x 1000 and repeat Steps 10-12
14. For sizes smaller than 1000px, repeat steps 9-12 except decrease Smart Sharpen by 0.1px
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