Vintage Vanguard

[mjzee]

I just checked out the Vintage Vanguard site, and it's been redesigned. Much cleaner looking, nicer layout, and I think he did new scans of his album covers. Check out, for example: BlueNote3.

[Christiern]

The scans are terrible...

Here's one from his site as it appears there...

...and as one click in photoshop changes it...

[Big Al]

Good heavens!!! What the heck happened to those scans??? It's like someone used some kind of shade on the scanner! Yechh!!

[Hot Ptah]

One odd thing I have noticed about the Vintage Vanguard site. If you use it as the source for an online image, such as posting an album cover into one of our album cover threads, the image is likely to disappear over time, because the cover is given a different "http:// code" after a while. I wonder why the owner of the site does that, or why he would spend his time doing that.

[Daniel A]

One odd thing I have noticed about the Vintage Vanguard site. If you use it as the source for an online image, such as posting an album cover into one of our album cover threads, the image is likely to disappear over time, because the cover is given a different "http:// code" after a while. I wonder why the owner of the site does that, or why he would spend his time doing that.

I think he does that (or maybe some software automatically does it for him) because people are using the site as an album cover resource and that much of his bandwidth is used up by direct linking to his scans. The real purpose of the site is just a self-conscious display of his (admittedly great) collection.

[Hot Ptah]

Please explain what this means: "much of his bandwith is used up by direct linking to his scans."

I truly don't know what that means.

Does it mean that when I right click on an album cover image from an online source, and then click on Properties, and then save the "http://_________" code that comes up, that I am reducing the bandwith of the source from which I am getting the image?

If so, I had no idea.

[Christiern]

The trick is to capture it and save it as a new image. I use Grab, which is a part of Mac's system, but I'm sure even PCs have something equivalent

BTW, on a Mac, holding down the "control" key with the cursor on the image yields a drop-down menu on which there are save and copy options.

Once saved, I recommend a single click on "Enhance" in Photoshop (or Elements) to brighten the image...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Please explain what this means: "much of his bandwith is used up by direct linking to his scans."

I truly don't know what that means.

Does it mean that when I right click on an album cover image from an online source, and then click on Properties, and then save the "http://_________" code that comes up, that I am reducing the bandwith of the source from which I am getting the image?

If so, I had no idea.

Yes, I think so. I'm no computer boffin but what I think happens is that when a page with a picture from the web is fired up on someone's browser, a link is established between the browser's computer and the computer on which the picture resides, down which the picture is transmitted from Mr Gokudo's computer to yours. With organisations like Photobucket, they have enough bandwidth to satisfy the demands of the entire world for Chris Albertson's copy letters from Ida Cox &etc, because they're running a business of some kind that relies on all those accesses and all of this somewhere down the line must generate revenue for them. Same as Amazon for album sleeves. But Gokudo isn't in the same business - just a private guy.

MG

[Daniel A]

Thanks for describing it so much better, MG.

Yes, when someone is using the link to one of his cover scans to display that picture in a post on these forums, for example, the picture will be uploaded from his site into the web browser of every person who is viewing that thread. A picture is a lot more heavy on data than plain text, so most of the data transmission in a typical "cover art thread" will be not from Jim Alfredson's web service, but from the original sources of those pictures.

Of course, there is always the option Chris is describing, to download the picture to your own computer, and then attach it to your post on the forums. But if everybody did that on the cover threads I wonder if we wouldn't be pushing Jim's limit.

[mjzee]

Thanks for describing it so much better, MG.

Yes, when someone is using the link to one of his cover scans to display that picture in a post on these forums, for example, the picture will be uploaded from his site into the web browser of every person who is viewing that thread. A picture is a lot more heavy on data than plain text, so most of the data transmission in a typical "cover art thread" will be not from Jim Alfredson's web service, but from the original sources of those pictures.

Of course, there is always the option Chris is describing, to download the picture to your own computer, and then attach it to your post on the forums. But if everybody did that on the cover threads I wonder if we wouldn't be pushing Jim's limit.

There are limits to the size of an image you can post here; it's pretty small.