PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994 Scan

[SuperPlay]

Today I bring you a re-upload of the scan I did of PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994.

Hosted by OldGameMags:

Lost: wayback./read.oldgamemags.com/PC%20Engine/PC%20Engine%20Fan%20(Japan)/

Try: https://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm?col=pub&val=pce

[Ji-L87]

Awesome!
I've been eyeing issues of PC Engine Fan on ebay recently, wanting to see more of it. Thanks a bunch! : D

[Bernie]

  Nice!  More more more...  heehee..  I so greedy....

[Ji-L87]

Looking through it, man, I could buy an issue just for the images alone <3

The scans look very professional by the way, how did you scan it? Cutting out all pages and then scanning them one by one or something? :p

[shubibiman]

Thanks for sharing ;)

[roflmao]

Awesome!  Thanks!  Downloading it now.

[TurboXray]

Yeah, what's your secret for these perfect scans? I have about 3-4 PCE FAN mags that I'd like to contribute as well.

[SignOfZeta]

Nice!

EDIT: Link doesn't work.

[SuperPlay]

Wow that was a quick down by Zshare. Re-upped to mediafire

mediafire.com/?w1s6qbjzy4jpmwb

[SuperPlay]

My secret is hours of messing around ;-) LOL.  I tested different clean-ups, recolouring and sharpening etc. however in the end I got the best results by doing the minimal.  During testing a de-speckle did make the images look cleaner however I forgot to apply this to my batch job!


Preparations:

1) Picked a random magazine

2) I opened the staples and then carefully removed all of the pages.  This was not one of the bound spines magazines as a lot of the later ones are.

3) Made plenty of coffee :@)


Scanning:

I used a Canon LIDE 100 and the inbuilt scanner driver that comes with windows 7 set to:

500DPI: As the Windows driver does not perform de-screening 500 dpi reduces the crazing effect

TIFF file format: Each image was saved as a TIFF as you can perform multiple editing actions / saves to this file type with minimal/no quality loss.  Each page was around 60MB.

I used a piece of black card between the folded page to reduce bleeding from the reverse side of the page.


Once each page was scanned I used photoshop to:

* Rotate the pages to the correct orientation
* Straighten up the scans
* Crop the images to size

I then used a photoshop batch job to:

* Reduce the resolution to 300DPI
* Save as JPG (Quality Level 1 - Low)

Last but not least I then used Adobe Acrobat pro to create the PDF using the default settings.

[esteban]

Hey SuperPlay, I PM'd you

[Nazi NecroPhile]

Downloading now and looking forward to later perusal.  Thanks, man!

[OldRover]

...tittens.

[Arkhan Asylum]

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[Nando]

DUDE!!! AWESOME! Thanks!

[TurboXray]

What other issues do you have? I have issues 2 and 8 for 1994.

[Tatsujin]

Yeah awesome job dude. So clean. Could be directly feed back to a reprint

[SuperPlay]

Thanks for the comments Guys.

Bonknuts: I have PC Engine Fan Issues 1995 12 and 1994 12.

I have a selection of 10 Mags without spines, I may put up a vote to see which one I should scan next.

[SuperPlay]

I have re-upload the scan I did of PCE Engine Fan Issue 11 November 1994.

A big thank you for esteban for hosting the file.

Hopefully I should be able to finish and upload my next scan, PC Engine Fan Issue 12 December 1994 by the end of the week.

Enjoy!

[Nando]

way too cool, thanks for doing that

[SuperPlay]

Re-uploaded and removed password from rar

[esteban]

HELL YES! Thank you (x3), SuperPlay.

https://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm?col=pub&val=pce

[fraggore]

thanks mate