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Hi Roy
I see the two scans that you are talking about are half dark apparently due to the way they were photographed. They are both scans of Swedish reprints.
If you have those Swedish reprints and are able to provide good replacements for these scans, please use the links below:
http://coa.inducks.org/sendscan.php?c=se&s=KA&i=KA1992-48&u=KA1992-48e
http://coa.inducks.org/sendscan.php?c=se&s=KA&i=KA1992-47&u=KA1992-47c
The scans will not appear immediately but will be held until they are "accepted". This is because the old scans will be removed. I will of course take care of that.
If you do not have replacements for those Swedish scans, I will think of what I can do, but there may not be any easy solution.

I have another question regarding COA uploading of scans of images. It regards "shelved" stories. These are stories that were bought by a Disney Franchise, and assigned a story number, but "shelved" (e.g. determined never to be published). Those stories, in most cases, were only drawn in storyboard form, and no final pencils or inks were drawn. In one or two cases of gag pages, the final pencils may have been drawn, and one 6 page story may have had pencils drawn.
Assuming that we will never have anything more to show than the storyboard drawings, can we make it that a scan of the upper half of Page 1 of each storyboard scan submitted can SHOW UP IN THE STORY ROW for shelved stories on the Creator's Index? I have a long list of Egmont shelved stories of mine, for which I am currently uploading scans of Page 1 of their detailed storyboard drawings. You know my style of storyboards (more like final pencil style).

Quote from user: Robb_KI already uploaded a clean scan of the Swedish printing.
I've seen anything like that.
When you upload a scan, you either click on a yellow button of an issue page or click "add a scan" from the story page, then select which print you have. In both cases you end up at this page:
http://coa.inducks.org/sendscan.php?c=se&s=KA&i=KA1992-48&u=KA1992-48e
This page should tell you that there is already a scan for the item, but that you can propose a better scan. In that case, a COAzilla message is created and the replacement needs to be approved. I've seen no such COAzilla report.
This is the complete list of the reports originating from Robb_K:
https://coa.inducks.org/coazilla.php?num=&showUnsolved=&me=&sentby=robb_k&isimportant=&search=&xxuser=&category=&searchLimit=50

Quote from user: Robb_KI did NOT upload the Dutch printing of the 1st page of D91334, as COA ALREADY HAS a good one (it's only a failed scan on MY OWN CREATOR PAGE, but there is already a GOOD QUALITY scan on the page on the STORY REFERENCE PAGE.
Please, no need to shout.
The bad quality scan of D 91334 is an automatically cropped thumbnail of the Swedish scan.

Quote from user: Robb_KSo my uploading ANOTHER scan of that page WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED by COA. You might have to copy the story reference page images directly onto my page (if that's possible).
I'm not following you here. It is possible nowadays to propose better scans as replacements. Of course, when it is accepted, your clean scan will show everywhere the same (on the creator index pages, story pages etc.).

Quote from user: Robb_KAssuming that we will never have anything more to show than the storyboard drawings, can we make it that a scan of the upper half of Page 1 of each storyboard scan submitted can SHOW UP IN THE STORY ROW for shelved stories on the Creator's Index? I have a long list of Egmont shelved stories of mine, for which I am currently uploading scans of Page 1 of their detailed storyboard drawings. You know my style of storyboards (more like final pencil style).
Here again I'm not following you. Storyboards appear at the end of your creator index at:
http://coa.inducks.org/creator.php?c=RKl&c1=date&pg=1
If you are talking about another page, please send me the URL.

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Quote from user: Robb_KI have newly uploaded scans of the two ruined scans of D91334 and D91352. (...) But, I am skeptical they will be approved as replacements
I have approved the scan for the Dutch print of D 91334. However, I didn't get any new scan for D 91352 (see the list of your posts here: http://coa.inducks.org/coazilla.php?sentby=Robb_K )

Quote from user: Robb_KI hope they will be approved so untainted half-page croppings of them which automatically go to my index page, will not have the shadows
Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. What you've uploaded are scans of _Dutch_ prints, whereas the scans at fault are scans of _Swedish_ prints. You would have to upload scans of _Swedish_ prints to correct the problem.
It turns out that COA has "choosen" to display scans of Swedish prints preferentially for these two stories because the Swedish reprints were published earlier than the Dutch ones. Of course, this setting could be changed, but that would affect thousand of other stories, probably in a bad way, hence this is not a good solution. There is no way to make an "exception" either without changing the "philosophy" of the system.
The best way might be to simply remove the Swedish scans.
Anyway, this is of course only a minor problem (in my view at least).

Quote from user: Robb_Kthe current scans for those stories, shown referenced by story code, are fine. It's only the "automatically-sent" cropped versions, located on my index page, that have the ugly shadows on them.
Nope. The scan on top of this page has a shadow and it is not cropped
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/D+91352

Robb: it would help if you quote the full URLs when you refer to something. Otherwise, it takes me a lot of time to figure out what you want to do.

1)I have now received a scan of the Swedish printing of D91352 ("The Punctual Duck"), and I have submitted it to Coazilla. SKO or whoever is assigned to it, please replace the previous version with my new one. I assume that has already been done with my good Dutch version of D91334. And yet, the ruined cropped scan on my Creator's page did not change accordingly. I see now that D91352 is now good.
But D91334 did not change when I sent a new scan of the Dutch printing, because I now see that the example for the story is the Swedish printing. So, I have uploaded a good scan of the Swedish printing. So, please replace the poor-quality Swedish scan, with my good-quality scan. Thank you.

2) Please also look into changing the example scan of my cover for DDFR 5 from the grayscale cover of the giveaway preview issue, to the colour version on the actual issue, because, despite the grayscale being issued first, the regular issue had already been drawn and coloured, and the grayscale cover was made from a photo of it.
I was the one who coloured it, and want the colour version to be shown on my Creator's Index page, rather than the grayscale.

Quote from user: cacouI updated the scans with the new versions you sent.
Regarding D 93277, please do ask Scalabroni himself if you can. Having first hand information is always better than having to draw on hypothesis and conjectures.
I have found a copy of the original "International file copy of Page 1 of D93277 ("Unexpected Bonus"), which I received from my editor, once the artwork (to final inks) was approved. It lists Scalabroni as the "artist". Unfortunately, it doesn't list the inker (as I believe was standard procedure and policy). I have sent scans of the inked pages to Santiago asking him if he drew the pencils for that story, and if his inker changed from the one who inked my other co-productions with him. I suspect that he'll tell me that he did, indeed, draw that story, and that this was a different inker. I'll let you know when he responds.