Thread: Children Jacobs, Joseph: Celtic Fairy Tales (Illustrated). V.1a, 02 July 2015
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Old 07-15-2015, 02:54 PM   #8
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Holy moly, what a gorgeous book! I especially like the illuminated, initial dropcaps.
Thanks. Yes, John D. Batten's illustrations are fantastic. And, as I said, the scans for this one were the worst of the bunch. Indian Fairy Tales is almost finished, and it's going to be much nicer (and I can make the initials a little bigger due to the better quality; I love them too.)


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Is it a scan you did a whole bunch of post-processing on?
Indeed. Quite a bit of cleaning, but it never got clean enough; so, frustrated, I fooled around with the freshly installed G'MIC plugin on my GIMP. A filter called "Dream smoothing" (in the "Artistic" subsection) produced this, and I liked it...
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