Orphalese Tarot Zone Community Forum

Dear Comrades:

Today I've stumbled upon one of the many Russian Tarots uploaded by Marvin, and saw Cowhead's comment about the possibilty of translation. You guessed right, dear Cowhead, this one was harder than the Rohrig, but not impossible. In essence, the process was:

-Resizing of all cards to same size and addition of a new clean frame
-Erasing of Russian lettering using clever PhotoShop tools and re-lettering in English (with Inmortal font)
-Filtering of all base images (JPEG quality was really poor)
-Aligment of all arcana with the new frame
-Optimization of size: new deck halves the disk space needed.

Results are a bit so-so in 1:1 scale, it improves when Orphalese reduces the cards, but this is due to original graphics and heavy filtering. Total time spent: 2 1/2 hours. Some of the cards where interesting, and that decided me to give it a try. Please, Marvin, don't abuse of the Russian Tarots or I'll be chained to PhotoShop CS for a long time... Hope you'll like the improvement, best regards.

Dominatrix, you are a treasure! Thank you for this gift!

Hugs
Gisela

I'm stunned! I knew that if I attempted to do it, it wouldn't look half as good!

I don't believe that I'll find any really good Russian for quite some time. There is one left that I might download, but I think that that's it. (At least for Russian decks!)

Later,

Marvin

Oh my goodness... Dazzling work, Dominatrix!

Nah, not more difficult that the designing publishing chores I must do from time to time... Some Russian tarots are just cyrilic-labeled copies of other decks, with poor printing quality, hence the result. IMHO, people like more Orphalese-adapted decks (even downloaded from the Internet) than mere scans, they have a different flavour. But this is just a personal thought, a logical one from my standpoint. Basic rules for a good OT deck can be resumed in bright colours, adequated size and same pixel measures for all cards. Lowering 300ppp scan resolutions to 72 or 96ppp (usual screen graphic resolution) can reduce dramatically deck overall size and making cards still look wonderful at Orphalese... Best