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Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Hey...I taught myself some photoshop skills today and this is what came up. I know its not perfect but I think it looks pretty cool. Just So Tobacco Buck Ewing. Please feel free to voice any opinions...again I know it's not perfect but it's my first attempt at "really" creating something in photoshop. Enjoy.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imageshack.us"><img src="http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7389/ewingcopy8zl.png" border="0" width="268" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>

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Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>I think it looks undergraded,does it have paper loss on the back?

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>what are you talking about zach - Ive got that card. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Oh...well I bet you dont have one of these lol....<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.imageshack.us"><img src="http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7113/cobbt216copy0af.png" border="0" width="423" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>the ultra rare t206 Speaker portrait (with a few cheap reprints next to it),<br />a Joe Jackson "rookies of 1909" cabinet (one of five different ones), and an Old Judge Wilbert Robinson card, made from a cabinet image supplied by a board member.<br /><br /><img src="http://runscott.homestead.com/files/reprints/t206sp.jpg"><br /><img src="http://runscott.homestead.com/files/reprints/cabJack.jpg"><br /><img src="http://runscott.homestead.com/files/reprints/ojrob.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Nice job on the Speaker they look real !

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>they are actual reprints, with the player image based on the bitmap Speaker image to the left. The Jackson cabinet is a scan of a real card I made. The Robinson is just a bitmap, but I made "real" ones as well, which look exactly like the bitmap.

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Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Ok here's my best so far...still need to work out the font and a few more minor changes but here it is....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imageshack.us"><img src="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7371/mosescopy8gr.png" border="0" width="210" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>

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Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Scott-I would be intrested in making a few reprints of my own...of what card I can not say yet...how did you go about getting your tris made into a reprint?

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>but then I'd have to kill you.<br /><br />oh, okay - the basic key is having a good color printer and choosing the appropriate "card stock" (8.5 x 11). Duplicate the bitmap image so that when you print a sheet you can simply cut between the images and have the correct amount of border. Try it with b&w draft mode until you get it right.<br /><br />Photographic thick-stock cards like OJ's are trickier and involve gluing photographic sheets to thicker stock before cutting. Most important: Be careful playing with sharp objects.

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Posted By: <b>Zach</b><p>Hummm I have a really nice printer but could you explain the OJ making a little more ? Do you print out a page on thick stock with the card then glue that to a thick paper stock let it dry then cut it out ?

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>It took a long time to perfect the technique, and it's not cheap, so I figure it would be hard for a scam-artist to duplicate. But if I told others how to do it quickly and as cheaply as possible, we would certainly end up with lots of forgeries eventually. <br /><br />The cards I make would never fool anyone who has ever seen a real albumen card, or even anyone with the sense to 10x their vintage cards, but that still leaves a lot of people who could be duped. If you email your mailing address I will send you some samples.<br /><br />BTW, I am working on series 4 of the OJ reprints - inspired by John D's desire for a new Corcoran variation. It will probably be Christmas before they're ready.

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Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1120612218.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>But when you look at them through a microscope, they have pink and green spots! Whatr a surprise!

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>Those microscopic colored spots are actually on your retinas.

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>set of 50 cards of 1905 pitchers, from images in Spalding's "How to Pitch".<br /><br /><img src="http://www.homestead.com/runscott/files/htpadv.jpg">