|
Post by cinderella on Apr 30, 2011 10:21:29 GMT
Good morning everyone. The simplified view from "The Jungle of Horrors" to "The Deathlord of Ixia" don't exist. How can I get it? Is it planned to put them online? If not, how can I help to do them? The simplified view are very practical... Cheers, Cinderella.
|
|
|
Post by outspaced on May 2, 2011 21:46:18 GMT
Hello Sorry for taking so long to respond. We are working on simplified versions of all the books. It is our goal to create full, simplified, simplified with images, and pdf editions of all the books, and we are slowly working towards this. However, we generally only release the one-page editions when we release or re-release a book. You can find the current repository for pre-release versions (that is, one-page versions of the books that haven't been released yet) here. These contain corrections that are not yet in our official editions, so they should actually be of a higher quality. I hope this answers your query. For Sommerlund and the Kai!
|
|
|
Post by cinderella on May 3, 2011 5:13:37 GMT
Great! Thank you so much ... I'm going to watch it now... Cheers, Cinderella.
|
|
|
Post by cinderella on May 6, 2011 10:31:05 GMT
Good morning everyone. I've seen the pictures of Lone Wolf and they are beautiful. What is your method to go from one bad quality of a scanned illustration at a so pretty illustration? Is there a tutorial or a trick? You do that with photoshop, right? Can you explain me how? I'm very interested. ;D Thanks. Cheers, Cinderella.
|
|
|
Post by outspaced on May 10, 2011 12:23:41 GMT
It's not easy! With Books 1-8 (Gary Chalk), Book 21 (Trevor Newton), the World of Lone Wolf series (Paul Bonner), and Freeway Warrior 1 (Mel Grant) we had to scan the illustrations from our copies of the books. We found that it is good to scan them in at a high resolution (say, 400 or 600dpi) in greyscale, and then manually adjust the contrast and remove any imperfections in the illustration manually. Once you have a cleaned-up image (and backed it up in case of any future problems!), you can then create a copy and reduce the resolution to 200dpi. We also usually reduce the number of colours from 256-colour greyscale to 16-colour because this reduces the size of the image somewhat; they will be downloaded from our server a lot of times, and bandwidth isn't free! With the books illustrated by Brian Williams, we are fortunate enough that he sent us copies of his original work for us to use in Project Aon, so we can get a higher quality result than images we had to scan from the books. We have examples of the raw scans of some of Brian's work here, in case you are interested.
|
|
|
Post by cinderella on May 11, 2011 9:08:00 GMT
Good morning! Thank you for your reply ;D I didn't think that it was so dificult to clean the illustrations I understand now why you need time to put a book online... I also think that clean the illustrations can be a bit boring! Your work is wonderful, I'll look the illustrations now... Cheers, Cinderella.
|
|
|
Post by cinderella on May 19, 2011 22:16:29 GMT
Hi! The links simple and simpler from "Trail of the wolf" doesn't work! They give me "Rune War" but not "Trail of the wolf" Thanks. Cheers, Cinderella
|
|
|
Post by outspaced on May 20, 2011 19:06:57 GMT
It seems there was a little teething trouble in the release regarding the mark-up on the Trail of the Wolf download page. Oops! Verified that this is now fixed. Sorry about that.
|
|
|
Post by cinderella on May 20, 2011 21:40:31 GMT
Ohhh, Great! ;D Thank you so much!! Cheers, Cinderella
|
|