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Original – Cover of the American edition of P. G. Wodehouse's My Man Jeeves
Crop - Per requests.
Reason
A good depiction of a classic literary character.
Articles in which this image appears
Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse bibliography
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Literary_illustrations
Creator
Uncredited; restored by Adam Cuerden
@J Milburn: Let's go back to the Original, since I've actually removed a couple signs it's a scan when restoring it. First of all, note the two parallel vertical green lines - most easily seen in his hair. That is typical of an older scanner. See "Sharp / Focused streaks" and "Blurry / Unfocused streaks" at http://www.hackworth.co/hints-tips-for-optimum-contex-scanning-2/ for examples. I'd probably say the latter, but it doesn't matter.
Secondly, look at the car on the left. A dirty mark on it can be seen, going past the edge of the book. I can't see any way to make that and have it focused on a camera lens, but a bit of grime on a flatbed scanner's bed will do that.
Thirdly, scanners have low depth of field, and the lighting trails off quickly as it's produced at the scanner. Note how, on the left hand side, it gets darker quite suddenly, and also gets a lot of artifacting. That's typical for a scanner.
Fourthly, this doesn't show any signs of tilt or perspective distortions so far as I can tell. That would be possible with a camera, but it would require a very perfect positioning. It's trivial, however, with a flatbed scanner.
I think the first and second points on that list are pretty much smoking guns. I honestly can't see how they would happen with a camera. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:18, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Very thorough, thank you. I have struck my oppose; feel free to collapse this discussion. (I will think further on supporting. I do think it's a great candidate, and I'd love to see more vintage book covers, but I'm still bothered by the spine for reasons other than copyright.) Josh Milburn (talk) 17:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@J Milburn: I could see cropping a bit off the left. Could you consider using {{CSS image crop}} to show a proposed crop? I could set up a simplified version if that'd help. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:45, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:P.G. Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves - 1st American edition (1920 printing) - Crop.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:50, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]