The Official Cover/Label/Scan Request Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:36 pm
I could have sworn we had a thread like this already but I couldn't find one. If there is, please feel free to merge or whatever.
I figured we could have an official thread for everyone to make requests in. Cart labels, covers, manuals, whatever. Either people could link to where it already exists on the internet, or if it's no where to be found then maybe someone here could be kind enough to make the scan themselves.
For any one willing to make a scan: Please be sure to to scan at a high enough resolution. Also, save the file as a TIFF or PNG as they are lossless. Don't save as JPG if it can be avoided, it's a lossy format (the quality wont be as good). If needed, here's a basic scanning guide. If you wish to scan something and need help, post in this thread.
After you have scanned something, try to avoid uploading it to a photo hosting site like Photobucket. Most of them (all of them?) only allow you to upload as JPG and will auto-size the image. This is no good. Try and upload it to a site meant for the type of scan that it is. For example, if it's a label or a cover scan, then upload it on The Cover Project (there's a raw scan section).
Here's a list of sites that you can upload to:
The Cover Project ==> http://www.thecoverproject.net/ (boxes/covers and cart labels)
Vimm's Lair ==> http://vimm.net/?p=manual (instruction manuals)
replacementdocs ==> http://www.replacementdocs.com/news.php (instruction manuals)
When uploading to any site, please be sure to follow their uploading rules.
If any one knows of any other similar sites, please let me know and I'll add them to the above list.
Any other suggestions for this thread, let me know!
@mods: We don't have any stickied threads in the Archiving section. Can we afford to sticky this one?
I figured we could have an official thread for everyone to make requests in. Cart labels, covers, manuals, whatever. Either people could link to where it already exists on the internet, or if it's no where to be found then maybe someone here could be kind enough to make the scan themselves.
For any one willing to make a scan: Please be sure to to scan at a high enough resolution. Also, save the file as a TIFF or PNG as they are lossless. Don't save as JPG if it can be avoided, it's a lossy format (the quality wont be as good). If needed, here's a basic scanning guide. If you wish to scan something and need help, post in this thread.
After you have scanned something, try to avoid uploading it to a photo hosting site like Photobucket. Most of them (all of them?) only allow you to upload as JPG and will auto-size the image. This is no good. Try and upload it to a site meant for the type of scan that it is. For example, if it's a label or a cover scan, then upload it on The Cover Project (there's a raw scan section).
Here's a list of sites that you can upload to:
The Cover Project ==> http://www.thecoverproject.net/ (boxes/covers and cart labels)
Vimm's Lair ==> http://vimm.net/?p=manual (instruction manuals)
replacementdocs ==> http://www.replacementdocs.com/news.php (instruction manuals)
When uploading to any site, please be sure to follow their uploading rules.
If any one knows of any other similar sites, please let me know and I'll add them to the above list.
Any other suggestions for this thread, let me know!
@mods: We don't have any stickied threads in the Archiving section. Can we afford to sticky this one?