Quoting Romzarah:

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st thought I would post these examples for you to look at.

Existing scan.


New scan.


Existing scan.


New scan.


So, No difference?

Yes, new ones are better.

Image contribution quality, unless really obvious, is very subjective.  If you believe your scans are superior, point out the specific areas where they are.  If other people don't agree, you just have to live with it.  If you take it personally, you will just drive yourself nuts.

In addition, when we vote, we don't see the images blown up like that.  We see them resized to the invelos standard.  At that resolution, there may be no dissernable difference.

You also have to realize that a lot of people are not looking at them on a hi-resolution monitor/TV. I for one am and see most of your scans as significantly better, at the Invelos default.

I have no problem see all the distortion in the old scans I am replacing. I see them even in the cover box of my layout before clicking on them to open the larger window.

I hate to bring this here but....since he is raising the issue this is by the same user who makes the following comments in his notes

"New high res cover scans, less distortion. To Woola, buy a real computer and, or get new glasses."

I have several THOUSANDS not Hundreds of dollars in a computer system that was built expressly for graphics and profiler. Thqt is constantly calibrated to Pantone standards, insulting remarks such as the above are not appreciated and are insulting. If I think you have done better I vote yes, the trouble is most of time you don't, you obliterate details, wash out colors and in some cases you tweak the white levels to the point that they are blooming. When you do better i vote yes you know that, but MOST of the time you do much worse, sadly.

I have told Rom all of this privately, his scans are typically just not as good as he thinks they are. I am sorry, I vote based on what I see, i don't need a new computer or new glasses, thank you. I judge your work simply based on what I see and i am not blowing up images to impossible sizes to analyze them I judge them based on Invelos standards, not some blown up image.

Skip

Distortion, my rfriend, means NOTHING. You don't describe the distortion, now that i know that you are blowing images up to impossible sizes I know what you are referring to, however the rules don't dictate that, the Invelos standar is 500 x 700. SDistortion can mean a lot of things. I will continue to judge your work as i always do when I can vote yes, i will, but i expect that i will vote No a lot because your work is not as good as you think it is, and blowing it up isn't useful. nor will I leave insulting comments aimed at you, i simply judge your work and i leave as detailed notes about what I see as I have room for.

I am sorry if you don't like it, but that's not my problem. I am honest in my assessment of what i see.

Skip

well it WAS a nice couple of days... 

Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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Distortion, my rfriend, means NOTHING. You don't describe the distortion, now that i know that you are blowing images up to impossible sizes I know what you are referring to, however the rules don't dictate that, the Invelos standar is 500 x 700. SDistortion can mean a lot of things. I will continue to judge your work as i always do when I can vote yes, i will, but i expect that i will vote No a lot because your work is not as good as you think it is, and blowing it up isn't useful. nor will I leave insulting comments aimed at you, i simply judge your work and i leave as detailed notes about what I see as I have room for.

I am sorry if you don't like it, but that's not my problem. I am honest in my assessment of what i see.

Skip

You didn't read my post. "If your system was so good you would see it as I do, even without blowing the image up."

I don't have to blow them up to see the distortion. If there is no room for improving the data, than the database can't get better. If there has to be a "significant" improvement on any data, than there will always be wrong data and inferior images. Well DVDP used to be the only good program out there, but now there is others. Maybe they will be happy to have any improvement over no improvement.