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martinola wrote:Unfortunately the Photoshop version still unpleasantly elongates the "Change of Reproducers" text. I've been trying on my own for a bit and have not been successful either.

I have showed this to a friend that does graphics for "Naked and Afraid". He had some success with the earlier angled shot. He ended up using Adobe's After Effects in a test run to un-warp the image. I'd say that George's last shot at f22 would be simpler to work with. Even with all that graphic fire power, it will still require quite a bit of fiddling to get it looking right.

This seems like it should be such a simple thing, yet over the years it has always stumped me on some level. If anyone has an accident and squashes their lid flat, please let me know.

Regards,
Martin

Better?

The main problem is that a good chunk of the original art is being copied at an angle that foreshortens the text at the bottom. In this latest version the "h"s in the top appears taller by 1/32" as compared to the "h"s in the bottom paragraph. The "h"s should be about 3/32" in both the top and bottom paragraphs. The viewing angle makes the text on top appear to be taller than the bottom. Here's a sheet of fragments saved from a very beat-up lid scanned flat to give you a point of comparison:
Too bad there isn't more of it. It's a worthy project, but it will take a lot of fiddling to do a convincing reproduction. I think it's going to take a line-by-line, character-by-character approach to get things to fall in proper proportion.

Best Regards,
Martin

Audiophile and Martin... I appreciate your efforts and I think we are close to accomplishing this. I am going to mess around with a couple of things using different programs - PhotoShop, PaintShop Pro and Gimp. I'm thinking that the answer is to separate the image into parts and reassemble it back together after manipulating each part.

After messing around with this for several hours, sectioning the image and pasting it back together, I got rid of the obvious distortion in the bottom half. I think I'm going to go with this as the final image. Now to remove the background, enhance the lettering and print it, age it and see what happens...

Impressive....Most Impressive. - Darth Vader from Empire Strikes Back.


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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

This is just about the color of my label.

This just keeps getting better and better!

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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer