Leigh: How accomplished are you as editing images? If you'd like to help with this particular item I have underway, one image could use a small clean-up where there seems to be a smudge of blue ink. Take a look at http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~sly/pb.htm (See the first "alphabet" image, on the baby's forehead.) This is beyond what I feel comfortable dealing with. If you are interested, I have a 1.4mb png file that I would request to have edited and returned in the same format. Or, were you asking in a more general point of view? By far the easiest way for a new volunteer to contribute to Project Gutenberg is to sign up at Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net) and help with one page at a time. And about your re-worked images, it would be best to ask one of the white-washers, (people who actually post files). Perhaps via errata [at] pglaf.org. In that case, please include more full details, such as PG number of the ebook. In this case, I can predict that a likely response would be that lightened images would be welcome if you can make them from an original source. In the case at hand the files included are jpgs. Jpgs use a lossy compression, which means that each time you save them, some information is lost. So if you take a jpg, edit it and save it again, you are probably going to have a file which is both larger in size and poorer in quality than what you started with. If you really want to perserver on this text, you could then try to contact whoever prepared this text and ask if high-resolution images are availible you could work from. (And all of this provides a good argument why I'd like to preserve hi-res images somewhere for the text I'm working on.) Andrew On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jacqulyn Perry wrote:
Hi Andrew! That sounds like a great idea, and a sensible compromise! Is there a way I could help with this? I'm not sure HOW I could help, I don't have access to the books, as I seriously doubt I could get my hands on a copy of any of these books-most are collectors items and way outside my budget.
In the meantime, I still have the re-worked images I mentioned, which I would very much like to pass on to you or whomever. They are the same ones in the original file, just re-worked a little so you can actually see them, rather than a dark blur.
Leigh