Thomas Wolmer wrote:
2006/1/1, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:grey fuzziness around the outside of the pics, I think?
Hm I am not sure I understand what you mean? I see that a few pics are somehat slanted and these could be straightend up (but preferrably in higher resolution, i.e. using Paul's original scans), but I don't see any grey fuzziness? Since these are GIFs, not JPEGs, there is no technical reason for such fuzziness. I'd also not want to lose the hand-drawn feel that the sligtly uneven frames give.
Well now that i think about it, I really do like the idea of keeping the hand-drawn look to the Illustrations- as imperfect as they may be. So my vote is to keep them as is, but I'll leave it up to you guys though :P
As for the colour maps, I have attempted making better versions of them myself, and they're contained within the Magnamund Atlas:
Oh, I was too lazy to check that collection as I assumed you had just taken the images from the books. But these are far improved yes. However, the text on the maps is still very hard (or impossible) to read in many places. I was wondering if it was possible to raise the contrast somewhat, perhaps locally around the texts, or perhaps by manipulating the colours of the whole maps. This is not necessarily twisting them far from what they should have been - the printers may not have been very careful with the colours. And I don't have any books with me here, but I remember the maps of books 5 & 6 as being far paler in colour (and thus easier to read) in the Swedish editions.
Here are the links to the Illustrations for the first five books, including the corrections to book 1---->
OK!
While doing these, I would double check myself by visiting projectaon's various Illustration sectons for each book and in doing so I stumbled upon a few minor errors/points of interest that might have already been pointed out, but if not here they are--->
1. The seal of hammerdal picture is missing from book 2.
2. The real ill19 is missing from the table of illustrations in book 4, Ill19 through ill20 are misnumbered- there are actually 21 illustrations instead of the usual 20.
3. Small2 is missing from the table of illustrations in book 5.
-- Simon Osborne
