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Anonymous
Hi everyone,
today I want to ask all the skilled anons out there, how to scan with good quality.
As you can see, all those pics are parts of scans. And now I wondered what the ppl on the smaller images did wrong compared to the person who scanned Euphy.
Or if its not because of the scan, then what filters do I have to use and how, to make it look better.
I think the bad effect on the Appleseed pic is called moire or something, maybe someone could also explain, why this happens when you scan something. And the other ones, I think that quality just comes from the original print, but maybe you still can do something against that.
>> Anonymous !mL2ZRk1cK.
buy an expensive scanner, get quality results.
The odd looking ones were probably scanned on scanners that were like $40
>> Anonymous
other ones had weak shoop-fu !
you can good results even with crappy scanners if you know which progs to use to clean up the scan afterwards!
>> Anonymous
I can tell you exactly what's wrong. Top left scan is scanned well, but no filters were added (like descreen) to smooth the dots. The top right picture came from a low quality image source, most likely a bootleg art book or cover. Additionally, that picture was probably scanned at a low DPI doubling the "rainbow" effect (red blue green) in addition to it being a low quality printed image. The scan in the bottom left without a doubt came from an American printed magazine or the like, because that's the print quality of things in the states. And Euphy is filtered, descreened and noise removed AND the source scan was a Japanese Newtype, which means smooth, nearly flawless original print on a glossy page.

Hope that helps. I buy and scan lots of things, so this is like, 8 years of experience talking.
>> Anonymous
Top left is scanned in what is commonly known as 'magazine/illustration mode' on canon scanners, without any retouching done afterwards. It'd actually look different in photo mode.

Top right is scanned from a printout of a picture that's already been shopped with a fake canvas texture to make it look "painterly".

No matter how good the final scanner is, such crappy digitally added-on textures will always degrade with each transferral, bootleg or real.

Bottom right - that's how most commerical colour illustrations are printed. A lot of printing's really optical illusions, and you can't help that the scanner "sees" it a bit differently than we do when looking directly at the picture.
>> Anonymous
>>183571

Or, to sum up: Crap in, crap out.