My Enhanced Johnson

[Runscott]

This auction with a fuzzy scan just ended. I took one of the seller's card scans and just ran some very common macros against it. The results were kind of scary. This shows just how easy it is to enhance card scans. (This guy needs a new scanner).

T206 American Beauty Walter Johnson

[timzcardz]

I was a little afraid to open this thread. Based on the title I thought it was going to be something along the lines of those Enzyte commercials on TV.


Does he need a new scanner, or is that the way the card really looks?

These days, yes, any image can be made to look much better with minimal effort.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by timzcardz

I was a little afraid to open this thread. Based on the title I thought it was going to be something along the lines of those Enzyte commercials on TV.


Does he need a new scanner, or is that the way the card really looks?

These days, yes, any image can be made to look much better with minimal effort.

I learned this through board member input on another thread: he has a scanner with the wrong scanning element. It gives a clear image of the plastic edge, but fuzzy interior.

[sportscardpete]

Best thread title by far.


And nice card, good price too.

[dstraate]

If I could enhance mine, I wouldn't bother with color

[brianp-beme]

No reason to enhance a Johnson if you already got a PSA 8 or better.

Brian

[Bosox Blair]

Just honest wear...no trimming...

[t206hound]

That Johnson didn't need to be enhanced... a "Wee Willie" Keeler on the other hand...

[Runscott]

Sorry, Leon - the thread title just popped into my head, and once there.....

Anyway, since it's done -

7 (MC), in plastic of course

[drc]

I use spray on tan. The girls don't complain. Much.

Only a slightly more serious note: Often when I take a photo (I own a camera not a scanner) the item looks different than the original in my hand (man, that sounds graphic). I have to enhance the photo just to make the item look like real.

Now you know why the have those color bars at the bottom of some proofs. To check if the colors are genuine or off. If every eBay seller put a color bar in the photos, we could tell who's fooling who.

As a photo collector, my problem are sellers who have slightly off focus images of photos. There's no way you can tell how clear in the picture until you receive it.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by drc

Now you know why the have those color bars at the bottom of some proofs. To check if the colors are genuine or off.

I did not know that - interesting.

[drc]

color bars. You will see them on many uncut baseball card sheets.



It works that the printers have a genuine, true color color bar and they can compare it side by side to the printed one to check colors. It gives them an absolute, objective way to check colors.