Author Topic: YELLOW SKIES...has anyone else noticed this? (Read 4148 times)

MJBivouac · « **on:** December 01, 2007, 07:51:23 PM »

In perusing all the great old and new Archie Comics covers that a certain member has posted in this forum, I have noticed a preponderance of covers that depict an outdoor scene where the sky is YELLOW in color. The most recent Betty and Veronica digest also has a yellow sky on the cover. Anyone else ever noticed this or find this at all remarkable? It seems to be a unique part of the Archie art style.
MJB

archiecomicsfan27 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2007, 11:14:31 PM »

ive also noticed a lot of times the clouds would be a really light yellowish off white kinda color...but yeah a yellow sky is pretty common in Riverdale

Gregg · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2007, 11:54:07 PM »

Just means they get lots of sun. In fact I'll take it a step further.... Riverdale only has sunny days unless weather plays a part in the plot.

Gregg

MJBivouac · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2007, 02:02:47 AM »

Well, yellow is definitly a color you see during sunsets and sunrises, but mid-day yellow sky seems a bit unusual at best. Of course in Riverdale it's the norm. .Of course in Los Angeles we sometimes have mid-day BROWN skies.
MJB

Captain Hero · « **Reply #4 on:** December 02, 2007, 09:09:02 AM »

Quote from: archiecomicsfan27 on December 01, 2007, 11:14:31 PM

ive also noticed a lot of times the clouds would be a really light yellowish off white kinda color...but yeah a yellow sky is pretty common in Riverdale

So is red...and purple...and green...and pink...

MJBivouac · « **Reply #5 on:** December 02, 2007, 10:32:10 AM »

No BLUE, though...Riverdale is on another planet I think.
MJB

archieandme · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2007, 12:01:01 PM »

Yellow skies must be a Riverdale tradition. Here's a book from the later 1940's with, you guessed it, a yellow sky:

archieandme · « **Reply #7 on:** December 02, 2007, 12:05:08 PM »

Yep, this yellow sky thing was definitely a trend with Archie:

Gregg · « **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2007, 04:27:37 PM »

Wow, beautiful scans archieandme!! Are they yours? If so, what did you do to reproduce them? If not, where did you get them?

These are exactly what I envision for the reference site...

Gregg

archieandme · « **Reply #9 on:** December 02, 2007, 10:23:41 PM »

Thanks for the compliment. They are my books.

I always used to have problems with the dot moire patterns caused when the color dots printed on the cover were distorted after they were scanned. I finally started managing to get clean scans by overscanning the picture and then smoothing the image.

So for these, I'd scan them at full size, except at 300 dpi or so. The scans would be huge but you could then smooth the image, which just blurs it, but there is enough detail still so that when you reduce it to a normal size for a web page, the dots were all blurred into each other so the scan looks clean and smooth.

It took some practice but I have been able to get it to work pretty consistently now.

I agree with you, I would like to see the reference site to have nice images. Comics.org is a great source to find cover scans but higher quality images would be nice.

Gregg · « **Reply #10 on:** December 02, 2007, 11:26:17 PM »

I usually do my scans at 200 dpi... might have to try 300. Not sure what you mean by "smooth the image". One of the things I lack is Paintshop Pro -- acf27 and MJB do wonders with that program though. I use Paint.net for image editing, mainly 'cause its free.

I scan at 200 dpi, crop close to the edge, then play with the colors until they're vibrant. Then I resize to 600-1000 pixel width for GCD purposes.

Part of my problem is that I'm self-taught and don't understand how to add images together to make a new pic -- kind of like acf27's photo manipulations in his gallery. One of these days I'll figure it out...

Gregg

archieandme · « **Reply #11 on:** December 02, 2007, 11:46:50 PM »

I'm using an old cheap image software called photomax. Polaroid used to own it but sold it to Epson so it is usually bunded with their software. I have photoshop 7.0 somewhere but since I don't do anything professionally, it was kind of cumbersome trying to learn the finer points.

I think the smoothing I'm referring to is equivalent to softening the image in photoshop or some other products. It is essentially blurring the pixels into each other. I liked photomax because it's the only cheap graphic software I ran into that lets you specify specific pixel size and resolution for images. Some of the other lower priced software packages seem to dumb it down so much so that you don't have a lot of control.

Banshee · « **Reply #12 on:** December 03, 2007, 08:57:00 PM »

Remind me of the old Saturday morning cartoon, "Richie Rich Adventures", where the sky is always bright yellow.

Oh, and the sun has a face, too.

This is a dream cartoon world, of course.

MJBivouac · « **Reply #13 on:** December 03, 2007, 11:39:55 PM »

It depends on your scanner and your scanning software, but some of these do have a setting to eliminate the miore patterns on scanned images. And of course Photoshop and Corel Photopaint have tools to reduce this problem after scanning. Both are FUN softwares to play with.
BTW, these scans are very well done...and both have yellow skies too. Love that classic Veronica in the sun dress...so cute.
MJB

archieandme · « **Reply #14 on:** December 05, 2007, 10:47:39 PM »

Re: Veronica in the Sundress, I always loved that era. She and Betty were supposed to be 16-17 years old but Al Fagaly made them look quite a number of years ahead of poor old Archie.

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