Here's finally the missing first pages of Volumes 01-82:
Link.
pw: <3OP
Uploading them here should be fine, since they don't really contain any Pages of the actual manga, also they are available as free preview on any of the sales websites.
I still don't know a better technique to rip the pages, so I zoomed in (2x), screenshot and cropped them, stitched them together and resized them to the known 1200px format.
However there's some issues I had with that process:
I ripped them from ebookjapan and when zoomed in (without zooming in my full HD screen didn't have enough resolution to achieve 1200px) there are 2 pixels of greyed area at the edges. For most pages this didn't matter at all, with some I just cut it off (so there's like 0,5 pixels of the 760 in width missing, which doesn't really matter either), but a few 2-page-spreads I couldn't join properly…
Meaning Volume 12 Pages 008-009 (Colorspread of Chapter 100) and Volume 18 Pages 008-009 (Colorspread Chapter 156) can't be properly joined, because there is a huge area missing in the middle (all versions, ebookjapan, amazon, the existing volumes...).
Volume 14 and 15 Pages 004-005 (The Story of One Piece) have the issue with the grey bars, maybe someone with decent photoshop skills can fix that?!
And for Volume 70 Pages 007-010 (Colorspread Chapter 691 & Film Z): Merging them didn't quite fit together but tilting the leftmost part slightly downward resulted in a decent image, but it is now slightly tilted...
As to the author's notes: I put them together from different versions, mostly full cover scans of the volumes and the newer ones with the extra page of the OPDCC version. The frist ones are all different, some in better, some in worse resolution and size... The ones from OPDCC I don't like though since they are really small in size and are hard to read when there's lots of text on them...
Enjoy anyway!
@Nisemono:
Italian guys obviously use some filters, mainly increasing contrast, more vibrant colours.
But the problem with Digital Colored RAWs from the Big 3 (One Piece, Naruto & Bleach) has always been the same. Is it 1200px the best resolution we can have? Or there is a way to ripped them in a higher one?
Some girl is doing Death Note DCR and she has some awesome resolution (mainly the newest ones, previous has double page and a weird frame around). Quite inconsistently releases, tho.
http://albasti.tumblr.com/tagged/DN-colour-edition-volumes
It doesn't look good to me though; I'm pretty sure, she just screencapped and edited the pages together but didn't resize it. It's as good/bad a quality as our OPDCC version and the extra resolution doesn't really make it better image quality…
There's rips of the english VIZ version of OP B/W in 3056px resolution and they look just stunning. If we could ever get this quality for OPDCC it'd be a dream.