Show your DIY album pages

indeed Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate (and Happy Day to those who do not)

I have the stamp now drying- please (someone ), i do not doubt renden 's opinion, as I may well have my interpretation of printed wortds describing colors backassward... and I have found no definitive pictures online  ( this being true with most shades/ color varieties)

Great looking page again stainlessb, well done 

Unfortunately these Jubilee issues are troubled with colour changelings and/or colors being washed of when soaking due to fugitive ink. It might be my screen, but it seems both your 2d greens are affected by this. Ideally the green color should be less yellowish and more deep green or grey green than yours are. Unfortunately this is particularily common for the 2d's. I think about 80% or more of the 2d copies I had were washed-out in a similar way! HERE's a link with a image indicating the original colours.

Here's another version of DIY pages. This time not for regular stamp collection, these pages are for those collecting postmarks: 

















The pages are actually not 'designed' as such, rather produced by a program I've devloped. It use data from my postmark register to generate album pages for postmarks. All I need to do 'manually' is to select the starting point in the register and select distribution across the pages  (at various pre-set locations) - and finally edit headers to suite. Very convenient. In the case of Canada, with very few different numeral cancels, it is not too much time saved. However lots of time saved when the program generated 200 pages for about 9000 different French numeral postmarks in a matter of minutes  Time is our most scarce resource, so finding a way to make things go smoothly allows more time for stamping 

If anyone are collecting these Canadian numeral cancels and fancy the pages, just shout.

Interesting. I am experiencing exactly the same when I am trying to capture my pages to. I'm also using manilla/ivory paper, but it is reproduced in all sorts of shades on the images!

looking at my scanner settings  it appears a recent VueScan update changed color balance to Tungsten - this is my normal "neutral" setting ( I will not make it a point to check settings after each update... of which they are frequent)

much better

Haha, thanks Mark madbaker. I'm probably just a bit crazy about postmarks, that's all 🙂
Identification of the postmarks are so much more straight forward and less time-consuming than trying to differentiate between all the different printings, shades and perforations of the SQs anyway, so it felt like a relief in comparison 😄

This is so cool to see, Jon (blaamand)

I have a tough time with shades and paper types so I usually ignore them. I'll only compare watermarks (for other countries) if they are easy to spot. And I don't check perfs unless they are way different 11 vs 14 for example.

Seeing what you've done with shades and paper types here is impressive, for sure. The shades are easy to see too.

A question: Are you buying specialized collections to get this type of variety, or are you going through hundreds and hundreds of examples to find the varieties?

Thanks for the kind words madbaker. We are all interested in different things and I surely understand everyone is s not too eager to check minor perforation varieties.
No I don't buy specialized collections, but I've bought a bunch of Canada duplicate stocks and a few general collections. Most collectors in Norway don't go deep in the SQs, so I expected to find some uncommon ones among them all that were not appreciated for what they were, which I did. Ended up with about 5-600 small Queens, and picked from them. It's quite interesting when one get a large number of stamps of the same issue, it is easy to see how the statistical variation is across different printings, perforations etc. The study and identification of the Small Queens is a good example. I only managed to find 12 stamps among those 5-600 I am confident were printed during the initial printing called 'First Ottawa', that's about 2% only! Kind of explains and justify why the catalog is so much higher for these early printings.

I'm pleased you're saying the shades on the images are good. Personally I didn't know if I wanted to share the images at all because the shades is not captured or reproduced properly. The shades differences are far better and more significant in real life than what it appears on my screen, it's like the shades kind of disappear in digital presentation. Annoying. Well, enough about that, thanks Mark for looking!

clivel  I am glad you like them and clone away to your hearts content!

angore   Yes, I agree. I don't tyically even open the color window in VueScan anymore, so I strongly suspect it happened in the next to most recent update (there is another version for Mac today and I saved my presets in case they changed). looks they didn't, but I went back and selected  that setting. just in case

there must be an app for color correction?

Unless the scanner is not working properly (exposure way off, etc), you can correct overall color issues by using the color balance feature.

philatelia Here's a page from one of my favourite stamp books, which appears to be on your side.  Keep the selvage!     

I have an Epson V600 and mostly use VueScan software to get consistent results. The Epson software by default wants to make the image better (saturate colors, etc). I also use cream paper so Epson was changing saturation so if you get inconsistent scans try turning off any automatic fix functions.