For the YoJoe archives, I’ve long wanted to upgrade some of the older comic book pictures. They’re small, a little pixelated, and the colors are off on some of them. I started replacing a few of them today, since something I was working on elsewhere in the site meant I was scanning in a few covers anyways. One of those covers is actually a wraparound, so the front and back covers are one contiguous image. While I can easily scan the front and back images on their own, putting them side by side doesn’t look very good – there’s always some distortion as the page curves towards the spine, and that piece of the image on the spine would be missing anyways. So I tried flattening the spine as best as I could and scanned that.
Photoshop has a photomerge feature that can automatically piece multiple images together, but try as I might, it just didn’t look right when I scanned in the three images. I tried scan after scan before giving up and doing it manually. Unfortunately, comic books are stapled in perfect alignment, so I couldn’t just slide the pictures next to each other. It took some time, but I finally got a decent composited image that I was happy to put on the site. I hope everyone gets to see it soon!