My real interest is in working with the images. My problem is I'm not very computer literate-I'm an 'old fashion' painter-so I'm not sure how much I can do with the limited graphics programs I have.
I'm pretty sure I can take care of the smudge, but it would require me using Paint to remove the smudge, then printing the image out and doing the retouch by hand-I used to work as a photo re-touch person-then scanning the re-touched image to send back to you. Which I would be glad to do.
I've posted the image at an artist website I belong to, that has a VERY active computer graphics forum and asked their advice. I've also asked about a good graphics program. Though from what I've seen so far, most of the images you folks have, at the most just require a little brightening and maybe a tiny bite of color adjustment. That I CAN do with what I have. Anything I CAN'T do, I will say so.
I'm sure that Adobe Photoshop would take care of anything at all I would need to do, but due to lack of cash, buying it is out of the question for now.
Oh yes, I figured I would need to contact the person who originally did the book, and ask for a high res file of the images. I just wanted someone to see what a difference lightening them, makes.
Leigh
Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
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
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