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    Quote Originally Posted by 616MarvelYear is LeapYear View Post
    Tomb of Dracula #10 July 1973
    "His Name is Blade!"
    While I love that digital has removed barriers for current readers to discover and enjoy comics from the Bronze Age and earlier...
    I sometimes abhor the liberties they take with recoloring the books. This appears garishly bright and over-saturated to me. And the shading in the woman's hair and on Dracula's face don't blend because they're too high in contrast.
    I wish that they would take into consideration tone and mood when they recolor. Maybe make the whites a bit less bright and mute the colors a tad to bring in some warmth and make it feel less cold and clinical.
    Those open areas of blue, green and purple are also missing the texture of the paper and possible halftones that added depth to the colors.
    I'd rather see them just use scans that are touched up.

    I edited the last page of your post in photoshop to give an example of what I'm talking about...

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    I adjusted the brightness & contrast, lowered the saturation, layered it over a faded paper texture that I de-saturated, added a warming photo filter, added a slight film grain, added a slight halftone pattern, raised the vibrance a bit to adjust the colors, and then fine-tuned the brightness & contrast again.

    Modern readers may prefer the brighter high saturated colors, crisper separations and clean blacks...
    But I think the muted colors and textured 'paper' pull you in and is more fitting for a horror feel.

    Of course, it could just be me. I'm not really sure.

    I do know I had to edit an old JSA story in photoshop just so I could read it. It was way too bright, over-saturated and clean for my tastes.
    Last edited by Lee Stone; 02-09-2019 at 03:21 PM.
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