Carl & Jerry's Mold Spots

[jeff_duntemann]

I'm behind on the third volume of Carl and Jerry: Their Complete Adventures, though there's some sparse chance I may still get it mounted on Lulu before the end of May. The 24 stories in the volume (the years 1959 and 1960) have all been scanned and OCRed. The text has been cleaned up and laid

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I found December 1959. Not to panic.

[jeff_duntemann]

Not quite an hour after I posted this, I found the magazine, which I had buried under a bunch of electronics catalogs down in my workshop. Carl and Jerry would have understood, heh.

Re: I found December 1959. Not to panic.

[happy_hacker]

Could you also make a duplicate of the image, erase everything but the line art into transparency, then blur the original and lay the line art transparency over the blurred one, and fuse the two pages together? Or would that be more work than what you're doing?

-Jim

Re: I found December 1959. Not to panic.

[jeff_duntemann]

No, that would be way more work. What I'm doing works well except for low-contrast drawings, of which there aren't that many--and I've been asking for tips from guys who do this stuff in their sleep.

Thanks for the suggestion, tho. I'm halfway there, and unless something goes wrong, should be done before June 1.

I still need to make a cover. Fortunately, I'm going to fork the last one, which is the same size. (Page count is the same or within a page or two, by some weird miracle.)

mold spots

[anonymous]

If the mold spots are as small as you suggest with your comment about acne, you may have some luck removing them with the scratch and dust filter. My notion would be to do the blurring and sharpening, and then apply the scratch and dust filter. By tuning the filter for spot size, you may find it does most of the work for you.

Bill Meyer