Okay, so I started scanning the Marvel Universe Series III trading cards from 1992. I know, someone already scanned them and they are online. The problem is, theirs are low resolution and a lot of the cards were damaged. I have a mint condition (more or less) set of them and I'm scanning them at higher resolution so that Travis can use them for character portraits if he so chooses.

Now I'm red/green color blind. So it's hard for me to tell sometimes if the quality of something is up to par or not. When I started scanning these cards, I got through the first 16 before realizing that my scanner was set to only 8 bit color depth. Well, I had already put a lot of work into the ones that were done already and so I'm not wanting to go back and do those over again if I don't have to. I scanned #17-#20 with 24 bit color depth. Please click the link and let me know which looks better to you.

http://s1363.photobucket.com/user/Spider-Borg/library/Marvel%20Universe%20Series%203

If the first 16 don't look as good as the last 4 then i'll redo them. If the last 4 don't look as good as the first 16 then I'll redo those. So one way or another all of these scans will match lol. And yes, I am going to do the backs of the cards as well (Each one has a square headshot of the character on it which may come in handy here)

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The first batch look fine to my eyes. The art itself combined with the fact that you're scanning off trading cards hides that "fuzziness" you usually get when you lower the color depth. Plus they're going to be cropped smaller for the portraits anyway.

I'm with rubix, they all looked good and about the same.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

By the way, does anyone remember the 1994 Fleer X-Men trading cards series?

I remember what got me into comics was a huge pack of comics and trading cards I got for my fifth birthday. The comics were Ravage 2099, Savage Dragon, etc. No big names, but those X-Men cards, and the X-Men cartoon I watched, really help keep my love of comic characters alive until I reached the age where I really got big into comics and started collecting the essentials and Ultimate TPB's.

Speaking of, what the hell ever happened to just collecting cards? Nowadays, you have all these card 'games' and card collections have gone the way of AOL, obscure and pointless.

I used to have tens of thousands of wrestling trading cards WCW, WWF from the 70's 80's and 90's, and WWE cards. I would spend hours organizing them, searching for duplicates, putting protective covers on them...man those were the days!

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

I actually got started collecting Baseball cards before I even collected comics. I don't know how it happened, but I had a bunch of baseball cards and I would reorganize them 100 different ways all day long just for something to do. The bad thing is that I've never even LIKED baseball. In fact, I pretty much hate all types of sports. I'm glad I got out of that phase rather quickly and moved onto collecting comics and then comic cards

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It was the inner collector in you. I had NFL cards as well, and as a football fan I was always ecstatic when I came across my Houston Oiler cards while organizing, lol.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

I have collected some MLB cards, but mostly NFL topps, and then I saw a colection of topps called "hero attax" and they have a lot of cards of characters so maybe we can also take some images from that cards.