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[Dr Strum]

For this, you're all going to start posting more and be nicer to each other. Or I will abuse my mod power.

Cover scans:

• Front Cover flap
• Front Cover
• Back Cover
• Back Cover flap

Page scans:

• 1 (Title page: Fall of Paltina CG)
• 2 (Story Intro starts)
• 3
• 4 (Geopolitical data starts)
• 5
• 7 (Art/Interview title page: A Ending CG)
• 8 (Character portraits/status art starts)
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• 22
• 23
• 24
• 25 (Colour sketches start)
• 26 (as you can see, Kylier was a mime in early designs, unfortunately they failed to keep her mute in the game)
• 27
• 28
• 29
• 30 (B&W Sketches start)
• 31
• 32
• 33
• 34
• 35
• 36
• 37 ("Key Visual" start; PSP cover)
• 38 (PSP back cover)
• 39 (GBA cover and Soundtrack cover)
• 40 (SD Milanor and Yggdra, Soundtrack insert art)
• 41 (Bathscene nonsense)
• 42
• 43
• 44 (Interview)
• 45 (Interview)
• 46 (Interview)
• 47 (Interview, more bathscene nonsense)
• 48 (Some random story information)
• 49 (System/Scenario title page: C Ending CG)
• 121 (Data Analysis title page: B Ending CG)

By the way, battlefields with major story events have explanations and in-depth analyses of them (for example, the one for BF43 is titled "Altwaltz" - take a guess what that one talks about).

[jcdietz03]

Sturm says the scans aren't good enough. He's probably right.
One complaint is that they're too blurred. Let's have a look, shall we?
Here's the original image and the cleaned scan above side-by-side:


*Those are blown up to 2x natural resolution*

Well as an experiment, let's try redoing that image with a different method. The one you see above was done with the selective gaussian blur filter. The one below will be done with the GreyCStoration Anisotropic Smoothing filter.

Hmm...
You can see a little bit of leftover moire pattern in this one.

Is that better? Still not good enough? I was looking through the other images - there are some problems with other ones - I'll post about it later.

Note: The three pics in this post are an excerpt of page 2.

This post has been edited by jcdietz03: Jul 22 2009, 04:16 AM