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Set382 - Velvet Holiday Issue 2001

I came across some low quality scans on VEF a while back, courtesy of "roberdeussen", and have decided to try to enhance them a bit.

They are from the Velvet Holiday 2001 (late Dec) issue:

Here are the original scans:

And here are the enhanced versions:

Pixhost gallery: https://pixhost.to/gallery/dQHSc

Finally, the individual photos, some of which were really too small and blocky to get a great improvement, but I'm inlcuding them for completeness.

001	002	003	004	005
006	007	008	009	010
011	012	013	014	015

Pixhost gallery: https://pixhost.to/gallery/sb5ii

All except two of these photos are actually new to the catalogue.  The existing photos are 003 and 006, which are two of the smaller, poorer quality scans so the existing versions are better anyway.  The rest are all new images.

I'll leave it to Venizelos to decide if the quality is sufficient to warrant inclusion in the catalogue.

Set380 - Club July 1999

From the same source as the previous post for Set382 ("roberdeussen" on VEF), some more low-quality scans that I've attempted to refresh a bit.

These come from Club July 1999 edition, which has a nice cover:

Here are the low-resolution, poor quality originals:

I've attempted to restore these to something more aesthetically pleasing and spliced together the double-page spreads as they would have appeared in the magzine.

Here are the basic restored pages, original size, plus the cover from the above Wonderclub photo:

page00	page81	page82-83	page84-85	page86-87
page88-89	page90-91

I have also extracted the individual images and as usual removed any text and recreated the missing backgrounds obscured by overlapping photos:

000	001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008	009
010	011	012	013	014
015	016

Additionally, I've used Topaz Gigapixel to enhance both the pages and individual photos, and I've also attempted to get the colour balance and contrast a little closer to the original Suze Randall 1971h set.  Some of the results are better than others.  In particular, I couldn't do anything decent with 002 because of the small size and blurry quality of the original scan, but I've included it for completeness.

Pixhost gallery: https://pixhost.to/gallery/q5BWA

Pages:

page00	page81	page82-83	page84-85	page86-87
page88-89	page90-91

Photos:

000	001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008	009
010	011	012	013	014
015	016

Now regarding the catalogue, all but four of these photos are new images.  The matches are:

• 001 == set380_077 (which is another scan of the same page)
• 009 == set380_024
• 010 == set380_079
• 011 == set380_031

The other 13 photos are all new to the catalogue.

Adam,

Thanks for those excellent quality updates from Club International / Men's World, 1999/07. 

Much appreciated.

Set022 - Leg Show March 2001

This great set has been let down badly by the lack of decent scans of Leg Show magazine from March 2001.  The only scans we had were by "riuScan Portugal", which had horrible moire patterns making it virtually impossible do anything with them. 

Fortunatley, I've recently found a downloadable PDF version of this magazine on WonderClub.com for a reasonable price.  Although only 150dpi, and not entirely free of banding effects, the photos are at least something I was able to work with.

So I've done some work on them to reinstate the pages as they appeared in the magazine:

page00	page58-59	page60-61	page62-63	page64-65
page66-67

And I've cut out the individual photos, removing text and cut-outs where practical and sensible.

001	002	003	004	005
006	007	008	009	010
011	012

I didn't bother attempting to remove text from the cover photo, as its the same photo as set022_010 from the RBKane set and had already been heavily modified. 

I was also probably wasting my time with 008, as it is the same as set022_005, but it kept me amused and at least has a different look and feel. 

Indeed all the photos are already in the catalogue in some form or other, except for the centrefold 012.  These are the matching photos:

page00 => set022_010
001 => set022_014
002 => set022_033
003 => set022_002
004 => set022_034
005 => set022_011
006 => set022_023
007 => set022_003
008 => set022_005
009 => set022_015
010 => set022_004
011 => set022_017

The centrefold photo 012 is similar to set022_027 but is slightly different, so should be added to the catalogue.

I'd also say my version of set022_033 (002) is an improvement on the existing catalogue photo.

So these two photos probably deserve to be added as upgraded and new respectively:

002	012

Set032 - Club International UK, Vol 26 No. 7 (July 1997)

It's been on my to-do list for a while, but I finally got round to scanning this early set from the UK edition of Club International from July 1997.

I've done my usual splicing the pages together into the two-page spreads as they appeared in the magazine:

page00	page45	page46-47	page48-49	page50-51

I have also extracted the individual photos, removing any text.  I have also removed the censor's horrible painted-on panties on the cover photo:

000	001	002	003	004
005	006	007	008	009
010	011

Finally, I have "reimagined" the cover photo to give Silvia an artificial background to make her look less out of place.   I'm not sure it's entirely convincing, but it kept me amused for a good long while!

000a

With regard to the catalogue, this magazine has been scanned many times before, so the majority are existing images. However, the cover photo is not yet included in the catalogue in  either original or edited form.

Also, if you look VERY closely, 004 and 008 are actually uncatalogued photos, although they are very similar to differently cropped versions of set032_019 and 029 respectively (from my previous scans of Velvet Jan 1998). 

Here they are for comparison purposes:

004	set032_019
008	set032_029

Ignoring the different cropping, for 004/set032_019 the most obvious difference is the gap between her blouse and her left elbow, plus a slight difference in her position relative to the painting in the background.

For 008/set032_029 the only minescule difference is the position of the end of Silvia's right thumb!

They are both so close, it may be more sensible to label them as set032_019a and set032_029a, rather than give them new numbers. 

Well done Spike. Our set 054 is now much better.

I still wonder where this image in my collection come from. Another unknown magazine ?

Set012 - Velvet July 2000

Here is an update from a PDF of Velvet July 2007 I got recently:

First the pictorial pages, spliced together as usual, plus two of the contents pages:

page003	page004	page100-101	page102-103	page104-105
page106-107	page108-109

And the individual photos extracted from these spliced pages, with a bit of a tweak to the colour balance to reduce the red level a bit:

001	002	003	004	005
006	007	008	009	010
011	012	013	014	015
016	017	018	019	020
021	022

In terms of the catalogue, these photos are all either higher resolution versions of existing photos, or are entirely new to the catalogue:

It's worth noting that 009, 022 and set012_025 are all slightly differently cropped versions of the same photo at different resolutions.