When grading cards, how is the back considered?

[rnisly]

on the Paige your eye will be deceived

If you pull the scan and measure digitally

6 pixels on the left 31 on the right

19/81 on the centering

Roger

[gradedeflator]

Roger, thanks for the math and pointing out an obvious test. I'm not 100% sure how to count pixels so I just blew up the scan and held a ruler to it. I got something like 14/86 centering L-R, which is still still better than PSA's 90/10 criteria.

is there some kind of software you use that can count pixels?

thanks again!

[rnisly]

I use Microsoft's Picture It for photo editing, cropping, straightening etc.

I believe it is similar to Photoshop but I haven't used Photoshop.

When I pull a photo into Picture It on the bottom row it gives me the

dimensions of the photo and the X Y coordinates of the mouse in relation

to the photo. The paige back for instance was 388 x 670. When I point the

mouse to the very left edge of the card I got an X coordinate of 41, beginning

of text 47, end of text 315, right edge of card 346.

From there you just do the math. I used pixels because that's my default

setting. It gives me the option of inches, millimeters or centimeters as well.

Roger