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Web spinning Spider-Man box
Last time I was asked to do a box for Spider-Man web spinning I had nothing to do the repro from, so I worked up a custom which looked like this:
Then, I was asked to do one again and this person had some pictures of the box. Well, sometimes pictures work and sometimes they don't. In this case, the pictures were workable but borderline. I took only what I needed from the box and built the rest from scratch. The Spider-Man, Goblin, the illustrations of the kid using the figure on the side and the cut out pieces on the back were used and fixed up and enhanced as best as they could. The front Spider-Man and Goblin art was good enough to do what I usually do, select out the black line art and re-color everything and also re-add the white outline to Spidey. The other art did not have enough contrast and resolution to pull that off. There, I smoothed out the color as best as possible. The cut out pieces on the back also had to have a lot of distortion and perspective taken out. the Doc Ock cut out was partially obscured at the side.
I hunted down the font used for "WEB SPINNING" and the text near Green Goblin under the window. "WEB SPINNING" had to be curved by hand since none of the curving methods did it the way it looked on the box. I could not find the font for "FLY AWAY ACTION" so I took the best example from the photos, blew it up and cleaned up the front letters. From there I re-added the outer stroke and changed the colors as needed and redid the double duplicated offsets.
Then, there was that orange half tone. I found a function for making the halftone, it was just a matter of taming it since if you did a color and converted it to halftone, it automatically matrixed the color used and so there were multi color elements in it instead of solid orange. Finally, I did a halftone in gray and converted it to orange.
I separated out the white web graphic and worked on that to clean it up (not as easy as it sounds, at least for me).
In the end, the file had some 35 layers and it is just about done (want to look it over and touch up as needed). It was one of the more complex and challenging restorations for me.
Then, I was asked to do one again and this person had some pictures of the box. Well, sometimes pictures work and sometimes they don't. In this case, the pictures were workable but borderline. I took only what I needed from the box and built the rest from scratch. The Spider-Man, Goblin, the illustrations of the kid using the figure on the side and the cut out pieces on the back were used and fixed up and enhanced as best as they could. The front Spider-Man and Goblin art was good enough to do what I usually do, select out the black line art and re-color everything and also re-add the white outline to Spidey. The other art did not have enough contrast and resolution to pull that off. There, I smoothed out the color as best as possible. The cut out pieces on the back also had to have a lot of distortion and perspective taken out. the Doc Ock cut out was partially obscured at the side.
I hunted down the font used for "WEB SPINNING" and the text near Green Goblin under the window. "WEB SPINNING" had to be curved by hand since none of the curving methods did it the way it looked on the box. I could not find the font for "FLY AWAY ACTION" so I took the best example from the photos, blew it up and cleaned up the front letters. From there I re-added the outer stroke and changed the colors as needed and redid the double duplicated offsets.
Then, there was that orange half tone. I found a function for making the halftone, it was just a matter of taming it since if you did a color and converted it to halftone, it automatically matrixed the color used and so there were multi color elements in it instead of solid orange. Finally, I did a halftone in gray and converted it to orange.
I separated out the white web graphic and worked on that to clean it up (not as easy as it sounds, at least for me).
In the end, the file had some 35 layers and it is just about done (want to look it over and touch up as needed). It was one of the more complex and challenging restorations for me.
-Tallahassee 
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