I wish archive.org had a feature (API?) to apply Photoshop camera raw filters to every page of a scanned magazine; the image quality of a lot of scans is very poor (here's before/after).
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 23:59:54 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:05:08 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ These could obviously be added non-destructively (maybe even in-browser for basic corrections).
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:15:00 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @leobm All sorts of things you can do, obviously the original data shouldn't be disturbed or be kept available.
You could even use shaders these days and run them on client-side GPU.
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Felix 🇺🇦🚴♂️ (leobm@norden.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:15:02 JST Felix 🇺🇦🚴♂️ @thomasfuchs Could this perhaps also be solved on the client side? So by filters in Javascript. Either before the upload or via a Greasemonkey script or a browser extension when viewing the images.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:34:44 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @trollball that was scanned just extra bad for some reason; there's also weird artifacts in the page... maybe the scanner was broken?
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Marc Jacobs (trollball@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:34:45 JST Marc Jacobs @thomasfuchs 100% this.
Also: Amazing how scanning software doesn’t recognize high likelihood of large expanses of white on a scanned page. Most magazines aren’t printed on a middle gray page.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 00:43:02 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ Apple ad in same Creative Computing magazine issue
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:05:05 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @TechTangents this and auto color balance (which works pretty good for most things, and magazine pages have lots of white)
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Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:05:06 JST Tech Tangents @thomasfuchs In general I wish there was more support for the idea of "stretch to black and white" for a quick instant correction in things like this or VLC(with hysteresis for video though).
It's annoyingly common to see improperly processed images like this with compressed luminosity.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:06:05 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @TechTangents I could imagine a neural network trained on well-scanned magazine pages could really fix stuff nicely
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:42:10 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @d_j_fitzgerald here you go
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Dan FitzGerald (d_j_fitzgerald@social.vcfed.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:42:11 JST Dan FitzGerald @thomasfuchs Can you post the full restored version? I love this ad.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:42:44 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @d_j_fitzgerald if I had more time I could do a better job, but it's pretty good I think
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