Still doing digital clean up to the Zelda guide. I was nearly finished, but like a fool I didn't add enough bleed to pages. I now need to go through all 64 pages and ensure there's enough bleed. Since I'm working from scans, I need to fake the bleed. Here is how that works...

The first image is the scan cropped from the scanned background. So all the gray boxes are transparency and that's showing how much bleed I need. The second picture is a digitally added painting where I try to match the drawing about as close as I can.

I'm also trying to keep the texture of the paper, so I need to fake that too. This is 200% zoomed into a 600dpi file. First is the cropped scan. Second is a solid color behind it, but it doesn't blend! So I make a paint layer and I'm able to blend the edge for a final look.

The faked texturing isn't perfect, but it's close enough, especially when you're viewing at 100%. That's an easy trick. Image 2 Solid color is super obvious edits were made. 3, lock transparency and add noise. 4, gaussian blur and crop and it's preeeettty close!

Lets talk about these damn dots for a second too. Dots by the crease always scan horrible, they're generally faked too. First image is the scan, second is cleaned up with digitally readded dots. I have layers of dots that I can copy/paste as needed. Sometimes I manually add dots.

Eventually you get to a final spread like this. First is unedited, the original scan. Second is all cleaned up and the third is is whats happening to make that final page. These don't include any color corrections, I have them on another layer. And there you have it! Whew.