MAMEWorld Forums - MAME Artwork: Official - Re: Legendary Wings bezel

> > Looks great, thanks
>
> Thanks. It was time consuming but I did enjoy doing it.
>
> I have a couple of questions about cleaning up scans:

Good to have more people helping. I'm new to this myself but I'll answer as best I can.

> 1) When I download a scan to clean up from the FTP server, how do I know if someone
> else isn't already cleaning up the same scan?

Best thing to do is search the forum for that game title and see if anyone has posted about working on it, or finished it (I sometimes forget this).

> 2) Some scans have small areas cut off from the top/bottom edges - often near the
> corners. Do you attempt to fill in the missing bits, or do you just crop a small bit
> off the top/bottom?

I can tell you my process, though others might work differently. Most scans go a bit past the edge of the bezel, so I crop to the edge (but be careful, some are not straight, so cropping to the top edge at the left side might be past the top edge at the right side).

I always clean on the full-size image (normally between 6000 and 10000 pixels wide). As a final step, I scale down to 4000 pixels on the longest dimension and crop anything that would not have been visible in the cabinet (the edges were often under a metal bracket which is why they are all scraped up). This scaled down version goes into the zip file I post to save space/bandwidth (anything over 4k is not usable to 99% of users). The uncropped, hi-res cleaned image, I save to the 'DONE' folder for Mr. Do to archive (maybe someday when 10k monitors are common, they'll get used). However, I do try to fill in any missing paint, even on the edges. If it's an area of solid color it's easy. Patterned areas, like half-toning dots are a little harder as you have to match up the spacing.