User talk:Penneyless

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:44, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Indenting paragraphs
I see that you are replicating the paragraph indents. We don't do that here as we regard the inter-paragraph space as sufficient. See point 4 of the Formatting section of the Style Guide for more details. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:44, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Illustrations in H. C. Andersen
Hi Penneyless,

I noticed all the great work you've been doing on Fairy tales and stories (Andersen, Tegner) and just wanted to pop by to say thanks!

And a tip: the images extracted from DjVu (or PDF) files are both lower resolution and have been reencoded (lossy compression). But if you go to the source scans at the Internet Archive you can often find much higher resolution versions, which will give you a lot more data to work with. As an example I redid the image at File:Page 117 of Fairy tales and stories (Andersen, Tegner).jpg using the original scan image, and applied some additional cropping, adjusted levels and contrast etc. Your original version was perfectly fine, of course, and it is absolutely not required to this much post-processing on images; but for works with spectacular illustrations like these by Tegner, it might be worth the extra effort if you're so inclined. Do, please, feel free to revert to your original version if you prefer it for whatever reason: I only uploaded it as an example of the improvements that are possible when working from the higher-resolution scan images.

To find the original scan images (for most, but not all works on IA), you follow the source linke from the file's description page on Commons. Once at the work's page at IA there'll be a "Download Options" box in the lower right edge from which you need to choose "Show all". You'll then get a directory listing of files associated with the work, one of which will be a file ending with "_jp2.zip" (a ZIP archive containing all the individual page images in JPEG 2000 format), after which there's a link labelled "View Contents". There you'll have a list of all the individual image files, .jp2 as the master format (prefer that one if your tools know how to work with that format) and an automatically generated .jpg version. For this particular work the file listing is here, and the original page scan for the image mentioned above is here.

In any case, great work on Fairy Tales and Stories! --Xover (talk) 18:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)