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Object Collection: Canadian Coins

Object Collection: Blank Generic Parking Ticket

Blank generic parking ticket.

Be sure to check out the whole Object Collection category to find more scanned objects. These objects are free for personal use, but commercial use is prohibited without permission. Please see my Creative Commons License for further usage details .

Object Collection: American Coins

Object Collection: Mexican Peso Coins

Object Collection: Blank British Airways Boarding Pass

I happened to find an old British Airways boarding pass when I was going through some papers, so for my first official contribution to the newly created Object Collection category. I scanned it, cloned out portions of the text, and here you go:

I also created a lower resolution PNG file that has a transparent background, good for using in a scrapbook layout you can download that here (2000 x 819, 2.8 MB). If you re looking for another blank boarding pass, check out the Air Canada one .

Be sure to check out the whole Object Collection category to find more scanned objects. These objects are free for personal use, but commercial use is prohibited without permission. Please see my Creative Commons License for further usage details .

The Object Collection Category

Back in November of 2006, in the first month I started this site, I scanned an Air Canada boarding pass at a high resolution, edited out all the identification information on it, and posted it on this blog. I did this because I couldn t find exactly what I was looking for, so I decided to create it and share it with others. Little did I know how popular that blog entry would become, and how many people were looking for exactly the same thing. Over the past 12 months, that one blog entry has gotten 22,868 page views, making it one of the more popular pages on this blog. I estimate that since first posting it in 2006, around 100,000 people have visited that page. The #1 Google search result for the terms blank boarding pass , and the #1 Google Images result is that page.

Since I ve invested some time in improving my green-screen scanning technique. I ve decided to launch a new category on this blog: the Object Collection category. I toyed with the idea of launching a new blog/site around this effort, but I don t want to create more work for myself than I have to. So the objects I scan will be posted to this blog, with the goal of creating a collection of high-resolution, transparent objects in PNG or JPEG (if transparency isn t required) format. I ll likely do them in groups of similar objects, so there shouldn t be more than one new post every few weeks with objects.

These objects are free for personal use, but commercial use is prohibited without permission. Please see my Creative Commons License for further usage details .

A Blank Boarding Card/Airplane Ticket

One of the purposes that I want this blog to fulfil is to fill gaps in the online world. Meaning that if I m searching for something in Google and can t find it no matter how hard I try, if I m able to discover/create it myself, I ll post about it on this blog. Some of these posts will seem like nonsense to you, but as strange as they might be, I figure that if I m looking for something, someone else out there is probably doing the same thing.

The first such instalment is for a personal project: I needed a blank plane ticket or boarding pass that I could customize to use as part of a surprise for some friends, so I went to Google and did some image searching. None were quite right most were low-resolution, making them impractical for what I needed to do which was layer some text over top and make a print out that looked almost as good as the original. So I fired up my scanner, did a 300 dpi scan of a recent boarding pass from my trip to Thailand. and used a clone brush to delete the elements of text that I wanted to customize. Voila! Took make 15 minutes total, and the results look awesome when cranked out on my colour laser printer (an HP 2600n). Yeah, it says Air Canada on it, but hey, that s all I had to work with. Someone creative can take the high-res image and slap on a new logo if they feel like it

2009 UPDATE: Be sure to check out the whole Object Collection category to find more scanned objects that I ve created. Be sure to check out the whole Object Collection category to find more scanned objects. These objects are free for personal use, but commercial use is prohibited without permission. Please see my Creative Commons License for further usage details . And if you re looking for another blank airline boarding pass, check out this British Airways blank boarding pass that I scanned.