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                The woodcuts were printed 
                    black on white, but with age the paper has turned to a toasted 
                    beige, due to acid content, and the ink is a warm black. Although 
                    the raw scans look soft at this scale, the thumbnails are 
                    a fair representation of the original woodcuts. Bumping up 
                    the contrast and brightness to approach black and white, such 
                    as Dover's fine reprints of nineteenth century woodcuts, would 
                    restore the initial look of the woodcuts, but they would still 
                    lack the drama that is possible and that Moran's water colors 
                    and oils have. By working in RGB, LAB,and CMYK, duotone, tritone, 
                    and quadtones, using masks, applying a wide variety of photo-editing 
                    tools (curves, levels, color balance, hue and saturation), 
                    and a fair amount of hand work reconstructing lines and cleaning 
                    up spaces, we were able to give the woodcuts new life without 
                    the artificiality so often associated with hand tinting. Each 
                    reprint is about 300% larger than the original wood cut. We 
                    could have gone larger, but the new tones would have been 
                    more obvious and we felt that this was the optimal size for 
                    this project.   |