Scanned Side Art - What Next?

jamesmallen

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I finally got around to scanning the artwork on my dedicated Rampage World Tour cab, which was in pretty good shape. I did it at 600 dpi to preserve as much detail as possible, and I scanned in both sides, the CPO, and the sides of the control panel box. Now I just don't know what to do with all of it!

I've stitched the scans together with the assistance of Hugin (which took over 24 hours per side on my Core 2 Duo machine!), and kept all the original scans. I also blogged about it, in case anyone wants to know the process I used. The stitched image for one side is almost 3 GB, and because of that I'm at a standstill.

My piddly 4 GB of RAM can't handle any serious editing in Photoshop - it takes about 10 minutes to load the image, and touchups take forever to have any effect. There are scratches and smudges and some faded parts, so this isn't exactly print-ready. Is there some place that I can/should post the raw scans or the stitched version so that people can take a whack at it? I'm not particularly interested in getting anything printed myself, since my cab's in pretty good condition, but was just wondering what I should do with it for posterity's sake. Thanks for any and all guidance!
 
Well, if you're going to do any editing you are definitely going to have to get rid of most of the data and drop the file size down to a manageable level. I don't think that the artwork is so complex that you have to worry about it.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
Now that it is stiched together, seperate in into 6 sections and edit and touch up each one. that way the file size is smaller and you can work on it with your pc. or Start vectoring it so the size drops, but you are looking at 100s of hours .

-Jake
 
Rampage Sideart What I would do.

OK I think you are getting carried away. Take your master and file it on DVD or a HD. Drop your resolution down to 300DPI and save it as a JPG to work with. You are not doing photo level work with Arcade art. I just Space Ace dedcated art and it printed fine at 300DPI even using a JPEG. My Master was about 100MB as a scan which I have on file. You can also save a master as a TIFF before your reduce the side for editing. Spend a lot of time in photoshop looking for things to fix in the stitching or removing marks off the artwork.

If you are really good vectorize it but again that is a whole level of skill requiring practice, seperations etc. As a one off you want a really good quality but don't kill yourself on it. A lot is dependant on the printer you use also and materials.

Michael
 
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