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Advice on scanning a CP
« on: December 06, 2010, 06:19:29 pm »
 I am looking for a Black Tiger CP overlay and it seems that no one carries a repo. So I was wondering how hard or what is involved in scanning an overlay that is already attached to a panel. Is it even possible?

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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2010, 10:18:20 pm »
Take all the hardware off of it, lay an open flatbed scanner on it, scan, move, repeat. Then those 'tiles' can be stiched into a single image. I can help with that.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 07:18:57 am »
Awesome! I'll have to dig my old scanner out this weekend. How do you do the front edge, the same way? It's got a fairly big round over.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2010, 09:42:56 am »
Pretty much. You won't know exactly how well it'll work on the round until you do it. Some scanners will surprise you with how good an image they will take on a curved surface. others are just lame.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2010, 02:46:35 pm »
OK. I will try asap. I really appreciate the offer for help too as I have NO SKILLS when it comes to graphics and the software to "fix" them. 

If we can get a good scan of this I think it will be a nice addition (for me :)) and the community. From all the searching I've done so far there have been quite of few people looking for them.   :cheers:
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2010, 05:32:53 pm »
Ok. Got the scanner out and I'm ready to go. Couple of quick questions. What type of file should I save this in? (jpeg, gif  or bmp) Also I think it can go up too 1200 dpi in "picture scan" mode. Is that going to be good enough?
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2010, 08:01:14 pm »
tif or png would be best.
yeah lets try 1200 and see what happens.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2010, 08:56:36 pm »
These are gonna end up over 100mb per scan, how do you want them? Zipped individually and emailed or posted here (don't think I can) or...?
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2010, 09:28:06 pm »
Ill pm you ftp details tomorrow.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2010, 04:31:47 am »
1200 is a little excessive. 400//600 is suficient.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2010, 06:23:27 am »
bandwidth is cheap. file sizes are irrelevant. you can always scale down.  :dunno
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2010, 06:38:00 am »
Quote from: cotmm68030 on December 09, 2010, 09:28:06 pm
Ill pm you ftp details tomorrow.

Thats good, cause just one I did last nite was almost 400mb.

It's now looking like Sunday afternoon before I can get back to this tho.  :banghead:
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2010, 06:19:26 pm »
Ready for that PM.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2010, 08:18:03 pm »
Sorry I didn't send it friday. Was really busy. Will try to get it to you monday.
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2011, 05:09:17 pm »
How did you guys make out on this? I am going to be doing a Jamma Black Tiger conversion style from the ground up and am very interested in this or anything else I can look for help out on?
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Re: Advice on scanning a CP
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2011, 08:20:35 pm »
He was unable to scan it usefully.
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