Wikipedia:Picture peer review/King Kelly 0554fu.jpg

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[edit] King Kelly baseball card, 1888

This is one example from a collection of early baseball cards at the Library of Congress that is still criminally underused on Wikipedia. The cards are available in a middling resolution jpg version and an archival tiff version. Most of the cards used in WP are taken directly from the jpg version. I downloaded the tiff version of this and modified it only slightly: I sharpened the edges using a 0.6 radius and lightened it a bit, and also removed two cases of what I considered lens artifacts. All print and paper defects are uncorrected. My major concern is with the border of the image where the mount is visible. I only cropped the top and lightened a distracting shadow, otherwise I left it untouched. My question is whether this is the best way to deal with it or if whitening might be more appropriate. I recommend looking at the picture in full resolution. For comparison, the jpg version is here.

I'm also interested in potential uses for this picture outside the King Kelly biography article, as it seems to be an early example of chromolithography and pointillism in graphics (see detail). ~ trialsanderrors 23:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

• Nominate and support. - trialsanderrors 10:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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