Re: 350+ scans of original upholstery-carpet-top cards

Posted by Stephen Houseknecht On 2011/2/27 16:02:23

I ended up redoing all of patgreen's work to keep a continuity (the tighter crop) after he had drop out because of his eye surgery.

I had found at least one entry that had two separate entries on its p/n tag and two separate entries from the parts catalog book I downloaded from this site. So I entered two separate files under that p/n. Also found different part numbers for different sets or trim codes covering several years. I reported some of the anomalies to Kev. Don't know if that is part of what you are having trouble with in the descriptions. Also the full tag entry was put into the file title to give the widest area of cross-reference for someone searching for info on their car.

I went with a tighter crop so that color perception wouldn't be influenced by the manila file color on people's monitors. I also color sampled the white point at least three different places on the top of each file to get a "truer" white on my color corrected monitor. Files were also converted to Adobe RGB for better color gamut. In the curves layer of Photoshop pat and I were both getting 244 R, 244 G, 244 B in the white point info display. Depending on where the sample was taken, the white could go magenta/green, cyan or red. This because the files were scanned as jpgs and the color space was sRGB (not a good way to begin).

Don't know else to tell you- my upload count came out to 376 (one intentional double entry as mentioned above).


If anyone else is looking to scan materials please use TIFF or the highest quality jpg setting possile and Adobe RGB as your color space if your scanner gives you the options. Always easier to downsample a file and then convert to jpg, do a "save as", without losing the quality of original scan.