Hello all, just stumbled over something where i am not sure if i am blind, its a scanning error or just bootleg uploads. I was looking to scan missing stuff for the db, and found it over this release:
my front cover:
deleted the old front only before i checked this, but a scan of front+booklet back is still there:
do you see the white lines around the text on the front?
generally really pixelated art. Disc scan is just a copy of the front etc.
my front+booklet back: (didnt upload it to mb jet because i need to edit it first^^)
Now i watch a bit over the art uploads of the same user and found this:
his back:
discogs back:
(yes its smaller etc)
colors looking off for me, font also, and again, white boarders around stuff. just zoom in at the corner of the hearth where it gets dark.
also here:
white boarders around her hair.
so now i dont know, can this be a scanner problem?
maybe someone has releases too that got artwork from the user and can check is something seems off. from i quick view i only had the jonesmann mixtape. just wanted to ask if someone has seen something like this? thanks
Scanner software often has an option to sharpen the image, sometimes even as the default setting. These scans were probably treated that way. But I think they are real scans from what was very likely an original cover. However, it’s a good thing to replace the images with better scans.
I have two different printers with scanners attached. The printer that is three times the price of the other has a rubbish scanner. Scanners can be very different to each other.
That is an unsuccessful attempt at suppressing the halftone screen that printers use to produce various shades from few primary colors. The author has used blur and sharpen with high settings to make areas flat and edges emphasized. The best tool for this job is Sattva Descreen if no more than 300 dpi is required.
The scanning TWAIN dialog comes with half a dozen settings that need to be turned off to keep full fidelity. The best scanners are the thick bulky ones. They can see accurately a few millimiters above the glass.
One thing that sometimes distinguishes bootleg from official artwork is the sharpness of text. If the artwork was scanned and then printed to make a bootleg, the text and vector shapes might appear fuzzy, but have sharp edges on the original. That would only be visible with sufficiently high quality. Some originals have this property, such as, Audio Fidelity releases.
