“ The scans from NYPL had a lot to do with my "final product" ideas about jpg. The blue channel "trick" works on some scans from the California Library collection, usually ending in "ala", iirc. Any "go back in time story" I imagine has me (along with some personal crap) going to NYPL and begging them to please save to tiff or png or jp2. I am having problems with a couple of pieces of software, GIMP being one of them. So, not being in the mood for image work is working very well with my current situation. My mouse stops working right. ”

“ However, I will replace images from a different source for the same plates, clearly identifying that is what happened as a note somewhere. Ultimately, if a reader is interested in an image they will click on it, how it renders as a thumb, sharp over dull (soft) , is something I would consider as uploader and overlooking the set. I am more likely to fret about any work I do in gimp to 'improve' the image. And, I think, the reuse of the png by conversion to jpg would be more successful than the reverse. ”

“ I too had the mindset that PNG for simple images, but they don't scale so well and thumbnails "look" soft and I don't know if GIMP is using full-sized thumbnails, but I had a 2.2 kb jp2, I cropped it and saved as png, nothing else. 50+M (I think it was 54M) of non-alpha png. Imagine what adding the alpha channel would have done!!!! 1000s of times bigger! So, I have recently even ceased uploading the originals as png until I can install pngcrunch. Another evolution I have undergone, is to make the final edited version as jpeg, which is only lossy if you keep running it through libjpeg. ”

“ Thumbnail, background color and transparent pixels were all toggled off in my efforts to make a reasonable sized png. The first person to suggest that I consider using jpg rather than png was tigert; you can take my words lightly but you don't have permission to take tigerts suggestion lightly. Lossless is good for images which might need further work done to them. You make final images (you make really good final images, even) . And you protect them (and the work of others) as if they are final images. ”

“ I see this huge publication bubble that peaked out in 1897, '98 which is not necessarily of quality publications, but some are. Reprints of illustrations and cooperative publishing. Probably the firming up of relations between US and London publishers, started around then.
I would like that my country did stuff for ethical reasons, but more often than not, the truth is that they do things for economic reasons. Our transcontinental railroad was a huge argument, for and against, for instance, where it joined being part a big part of the start of our Civil War. ”

“ Do you mean undo, revert or otherwise change an edit made by someone, such as yourself, who does have sysop tools? Fairy tales can be complicated, I've been thinking about the storyteller in the thousand nights and one night: its important to note that she is trying to save her own life by telling the ruler what they want to hear and believe, not what is just. I'll have a look at the images, biblical illustrations is yet another thing I'm interested in. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 20:36, 3 September 2021 (UTC) Re: “warned” It’s called the “Table of contents” field for a reason. ”

“ Please do as I ask, restore the history and link it here. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 17:00, 13 July 2018 (UTC) Here is the history. No real value in undeleting. Page history
(diff) 20:22, 6 July 2018 . . Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs | block) (424 bytes) (probably complete) (diff) 19:49, 6 July 2018 . . Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs | block) (148 bytes) (interim save) which would indicate that it was artefact in that a transcluded page was putting in the delete template. I believed that you had moved the pages you wanted moved, put in a deletion request, which I did and cleaned up. ”

“ CYGNIS INSIGNIS 12:06, 20 October 2018 (UTC) Duplication is bad in itself and should be avoided. Treating similar text in different ways should also be avoided. Finally, putting the French text on both French and English Wikisource make the bilingual view look -at best- strange (the two texts are not in parallel anymore) . Do you really want to keep it that way? ”

“ Hoy, nice to hear from you both. And wishing all a prosperous year ahead. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 14:37, 2 January 2020 (UTC) blue fairy, blue decompose, png The last time I looked at the blue fairy images, they were png and by you (as uploader) . Now they aren't. I remember this very clearly because I was considering redoing them, but they were fine. Good even, if great can be reserved for more current software.
The png at the commons are no longer uploaded by you! ”

“ PNG is the better format for images of this type, it is a shame your method of pushing to your ereader makes that 'impossible' but that is not a good reason to change to jpg (I suspect a workaround is available to you) . CYGNIS INSIGNIS 15:03, 19 June 2021 (UTC) I did not touch English Fairy Tales which is your work. It was/is beautiful work. In truth, SVG is far better than any other for these images. ”

“ I hope I can do better eleven years later, but still think jpg looks too crisp, sort o' 'sparkly', for b&w; I assume that result is what you prefer. Cygnis insignis (talk) 02:55, 7 November 2021 (UTC) 10 years and 2 months. I saw your uploads then; commons "recent uploads" used to be as interesting as TV, which does not say much about either, really. I maybe should have right then started doing the images for the Curtis Botanical, I did not "get it" though. But about jpg vs png: Sometimes the "smooth" that you pointed out in the first woodcut goes past smooth and into "soft". ”

“ When something is really good I am tempted, but tend not to add them. By the way ... "'tards"? I suppose the term edge-lord is old-hat, but you know what I'm getting at. Be well. Cygnis insignis (talk) 14:30, 13 September 2021 (UTC) Accusations of racism You have been asked several times by several administrators in the past to provide evidence if you're going to make accusations of racism towards Billinghurst, which you have done yet again in an edit summary on M-le-mot-dit's talk page (I have hidden that edit summary from public view) . ”

“ Nothing more, nothing less. I am not doubling down on anything, and making no negative assertions or accusations. My initial comment was simply asked that you ask an admin to move pages from page namespace so we don't have to remove redirects and other cleanups, they are messy, and this is an indication of how they get messy. ”

“ The artifacts make the lines crisper. It would be just great, imo, if the exporter would convert images as it is formating for ereaders. A 5M restriction on email is not such a bad thing if the device has only 8G available. It is the job for these books, to look great online and to install into ereaders or to make pdf for printers. I checked the exporter and it is just taking the images given to it. gutenberg doesn't accept png, btw, which might be the start of my re-thinking png. I left an example of someone elses work in a gallery.... ”

“ Accusations, especially of something as atrocious as bigoted behavior, should never be directed at someone in a public setting on WMF sites, unless there is at least some indication provided that the accusations are accurate, to which you have still provided none. ”

“ Your dressing for an ocean voyage is cute as, the symmetry of the image is making it work, you could have switch legs too (maybe the skirt of the coat flapping slightly to emphasize the caption :) What you are proposing is a very interesting idea, quite sincerely, however, my inner wonk is going to insist this is wikibook project, but an admin has validated it so what can I say. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 04:45, 24 July 2021 (UTC) I just cropped a 4000x6000px jp2 (1.1M) into something more like 4000x3000 pxs and saved as PNG. GIMP made that 1.1M jp2 into a 8.7M png. ”

“ Thanks, if you want to improve on my earliest attempts at image cleanup then overwrite the file, but there is no shortage of similar texts to create here. Very impressed with the Walter Crane work, his black and white work is better than most of the colour work. Please don't change regular images from the default size in works that are 'done', that overrides the readers and transcribers preferences. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 14:33, 19 June 2021 (UTC) I will leave them alone. ”

“ Why is your name not in the list at Wikisource:Administrators? I don’t mind editing fairy tales because in them good always destroys evil in the end. I’m an Adherent member of The Salvation Army -- the other type of membership for laypeople is Soldier - Portal:Salvation Army. My computer is a 27" iMac, so its very easy to find mistakes and my timezone is GMT + 9:30 South Australia (10:30) Daylight Saving. There is one thing you could help with atm -- images for Index:The Holy Bible, containing the Old & New Testament & the Apocrypha.djvu and maybe some of the Proofread pages. ”

“ Cygnis insignis (talk) 20:30, 7 September 2021 (UTC) Explanation of my revert Hello. If you have any issue against an admin it should not be discussed under the nomination of a completely different person. The nomination section serves to discuss the nominee. If you have anything against an admin, you can raise it at AN, RfC or at Scriptorium. ”

“ I don't remember seeing it around when I gathered up the contemporary reviews for the artist (who is relevant to some other interests, rather than—anything more than—quite good (not an AR) ) . Cygnis insignis (talk) 04:02, 27 October 2021 (UTC) You mean the one in that scan? I can do that right now, but if you find the better version then be certain to upload over that one! Hathi has good search which means good ocr, which typically means bad art scans....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 04:52, 27 October 2021 (UTC) I'm just looking at IA now, which has some of issues. I'll see it that one is around. ”

“ It would be good if we could have these conversations on Template talk:Welcome so the community can be involved, and not have random changes and reversions to the template. These resolutions on user talk pages are problematic. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:39, 13 June 2021 (UTC) I restored the comment. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 16:50, 13 June 2021 (UTC) There's no reason we can't have a preliminary discussion here to determine (a) what qualities would make for a good image, and (b) select one or more possible candidates. ”

“ CYGNIS INSIGNIS 15:50, 2 July 2018 (UTC) {{Scrollpane}} If you prefer a different one. I have very few opinions about this. Index:Bird-lore_Vol_01.djvu uses a template I pasted from the help, previously.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:29, 2 July 2018 (UTC) Maybe I should have started this on the talk page. I have been needing to talk to @Hesperian: about Portal:Taxonomy instead of Portal:Genus species. Journals are a good place to start to talk. I am stuck at thinking about the scientific vs vulgare articles and how to manage the lists; all I can think of is by date. ”

“ Some of the results were of the process were excellent, many are brash and gaudy ... a selling point to the purchaser/gift-giver? Cygnis insignis (talk) 15:52, 5 November 2021 (UTC) commons:The Bookman (London) , Vol. 49--Full page plates <--what I got so far. Half-tone replace engraving for turning color images into black and whites for publishing purposes (I can't think of other reasons to do this) . Everything is good and bad. Half-toning came out of the photographic process (I think) and probably takes a fraction of the time that producing an engraving takes. So that is good. ”

“ Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 09:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC) Because you blanked the pages and marked it without text. Please revalidate the text, your action has overwritten that. Secondly, this is a featured text, you need to reopen that discussion if you disagree. The work contains french and english, what is the concern with that? CYGNIS INSIGNIS 09:42, 20 October 2018 (UTC) My "concern" is that for more than a decade, I worked on English texts on English Wikisource and on French texts on French Wikisource (and same for other languages) . I don't see why this book should be treated differently. ”

“ I gave a reason, it is not broken, you haven't, in your edit summary when you reverted me without discussion, or in your statement here, which is to say it is, somehow, broken. Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC) link to result of exhaustive discussion given also, changing format at one page of work diffs Cygnis insignis (talk) 11:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC) 1914 Bookman That file has a link to the whole volume at Hathitrust. In the commons:Category:The Bookman (London) /Volume 49 I uploaded every ad that mentioned AR or Dulac, both have a featured plate in the issue. ”