All pages scanned in On VISIONEER 9320 at the following settings
300 dpi, 42 brightness, 50 contrast, descreen, .072 gamma, 78. horiz, 11 vert.
Black construction paper was placed behind each page before scanning.
cover was not used, instead a magazine sized backer was used while placing manual pressure (hands) on the spine.
Pages were Stacked in PaperPort and exported as 100% Jpg images.

Cover was rotated square, cropped and inserted into a new photoshop document.
which was 1959 X 3070 X 300 dpi .. approx 8 pixels were lost width and 4 in height.
[to help account for pages being warped, off cut etc.

Each page was rotated to be square (some rotated 180 degrees first .. due to always scanning with the spine out.)
and then dragged over to the photoshop document as a new layer .. and sqared into the center of the page. Care was taken to only leave out the edges of pages that had less detail . or were not important to the page. (ie only borders)

PSD was then saved.

(approx time up to this point 55 mins)

Recalibrated Monitor using GamaTool v2

Created Macro for despeckle etc (matching colours to the book but deepening them a little because of the crappy paper) ... as follows :

Despeckle
Despeckle
Auto Levels
Auto Colours
Hugh Saturation
 Withough Colourize
 Hue: -1
 Saturation -20
 Lightness 6
Brightness Contrast
 Brightness 3
 Contrast 6
Colour Balance
Shadow Levels 6,0,0
Midtone Levels 6,0,0
Hilight Levels 6,0,0

The colour balance function adjusts my scanners ability to really hate purples for some reason.
(took about 25 mins)

Applied this macro to all pages .. on some pages I needed to clean word balloons BEFORE the colour macros.
Others I clean them after.

Cleaned up word balloons on remaining pages, as well as white borders. Hindsight being 20/20, I Should have cleaned all the white up first before colour balancing, as this might have fixed the 'purple' problem i was having. (there are 2-3 pages that are slightly more saturated.)

Resized to 150 dpi 1024 width (which autofilled in 1605 height)
Added My Signature tag and 2 'blurbs' on the bottom of random pages.

Saved file .. (Approx 30 mins)

Cleaned Dust left over on images. (About 10 mins)

Used .NET Widget(tm) Script to rename and save layers as lvl 8 jpgs (75 seconds)

Zipped up images, this nfo and the 4 raw jpgs into cbr :)

Rembrandt




