Scanlation

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People will say quality but really what they want is speed.

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>>119286875
Quality.
The worse the better.

Donations.

Is this a NSFW question ?

Anyone mind checking this over for me, before I put it on sadpanda? Kind of a solo project.

The grays/blacks were kind of a problem. To make the blacks pure black the gray got much too dark. And dropping the gray scale to the point where it was good would mess up the screen tones.

So instead I just make a copy of the layer, blured a little bit, set the image type to threshold, selected the channels, then intervened the selection and feathered the edge. After that just fill it with black and was pretty much set.

Let me know if you spot any glaring mistakes. Thanks.

http://puu.sh/e2D9j/0770904b97.rar

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>>119287026

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It's a really hard choice.

>>119286875
No one cares about quality, a good portion of /a/nons read their manga of websites like Mangahere or Mangafox.

A nice balance between quality and speed.

>>119287189
They always realease first, just like horrible fansubs!

I bet I can clean better than all of you fags.

>>119287189
>>119287234
>Save image
>Crop out the watermark
>No one can tell the difference
It's sad really.

Both.

If it's ongoing, speed, if it's a one shot/doujin then quality.

>>119287421
The page size and tones always give it away, don't delude yourself.

>>119287421
It's really not that hard to tell the difference.

TL quality.
Everything else is speed.
People have no standards.

Quality will replace speed in the end. The epitome of speed without quality is Laruffi.

>>119287468
>>119287471
I see the shitty fragmented images posted all the time, no one calls it out like they'd do if there was a Mangafox watermark at the bottom or something.

>>119287421
It's their preference. At this point we even have kissmanga images getting posted, manga will always attract a more variant crowd, including manwha readers.

>>119287520
Because most people don't actually open them, they can just tell what it is from the thumbnail.

>>119286875
Translation > Clean up > Speed

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>>119286875
Speed.
Else we wouldnt have masterpieces like this.

Speed, ideally we would get shit looking fast versions (with good translations) that would be eventually updated into a version with decent quality

Speed definitely. It's the same with anime too.

>>119287520
I used to call people out for that shit, but it's too much of a hassle these days because there are so many people who do it now.
The quality of posters is without doubt going down.

It's not about a 'speed vs quality' dichotomy.

It's about doing the best possible job in the least possible time. If you take more time than necessary to do a proper job, you;re no better than someone who did a poor job quickly.

For the most part, the largest source of delays for scanlated releases isn't the work involved in actually translating/typesetting it, and it certainly isn't QC or cleaning. It's the other random shit the NEETs piss their time away doing while they procrastinate actual scanlating.

>>119287775
Yeah this.
"b-but it looks a little better' isn't an excuse for being slow as molasses when you're slow because you spend all week playing MMOs and can't follow a schedule.

>>119287775
>>119287871
It's just my standards > your standards

Kotonoha quality.

NOT Kotonoha speed.

A good balance of both.

>5 years to release one volume.

>>119287421

The resolution and the shitty image quality always gives it away, don't let Mangafoxtards delude themselves otherwise.

Speed first, quality later.

I always try to go for quality, but if I know it'll take too much time to get it up to my standards, I stop caring and just release.

>>119287692
>>119288175
>do work twice
Yeah, no.

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What fonts do you scanlators use?

>>119286875
actually getting it done

>>119288400
I've lost count how many. But I usually use Wild Words Lower for normal dialog.

>>119287775
It's a hobby. You pay me money, and if there is an agreed upon schedule I will attempt to meet it. At that point it's a job and at standard rates it's a job that pays sweatshop-level wages, which is why you can almost count the people that do it as a sideline for money on one hand.

My take on amateur manga scanlation is along the lines of the old saw about software documentation - when it's good, it's a pleasant surprise, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing.

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>>119288400
I just lost all my fonts after a hard drive failure, working on setting them up again now. Can't even remember what half the ones I need to get are, I figure I'll remember as I get to bubbles that need them.

>>119288514
I got a few for you here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1yv11wl8k31u37o/Fonts.7z

>>119286875
Speed because I hardly even need the subs to begin with, but I'll take quality if it's available.

Why are most scanlators huge faggots?

>>119287108
I skimmed through a few of the pages (have to run very soon) and I can see you spent a lot of time on this. God bless you, anon.

>>119288593
Thanks anon.

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>>119288400
Got a bunch of fonts.

Scanlation fonts? Err...

CC Comicrazy, CC Dave Gibbons, Ahkio could work well, and Hundred Watt BB.

Someday I'll get Manga Master BB. Someday.

>>119288625
They are edgy too >>119288654

>>119288514
Is there a way to categorize manga scanlating fonts in photoshop without searching through the titanic list?

>>119288593
>>119288651
Recommend you put these into \Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts

>>119288721
You know, just because dark colors are easier on my eyes it doesn't mean I'm edgy. The word has lost all meaning. It means nothing anymore.

I usually read the highest quality scanlation available. Which doesn't help me at all if there's no scanlation.

Quality is better than no quality, but low quality is better than nothing and there are too many manga (especially older stuff) I haven't seen in English yet.

>>119288654
Jesus dude, that picture gave me eye cancer.

>>119288400
Comic Sans

>>119288762
It's just a joke.

Full black is fucking edgy though, you should have some lights on.

>>119288751
I use tool presets, which makes them all pop up in a list like >>119288514
It lets you set the size and stuff too, and it'll automatically switch to the text tool when you click on it.

>>119288761
I usually just install them, is there a reason to use that folder instead?

>>119288634
Thanks, but it was really only a couple hours of work. The only real annoying part was how every character had their own font.

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I only read the highest of high quality works.

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>>119286875
I don't care about speed. If I know there will be a release, then it doesn't matter how long it will take for it to have an acceptable quality. What really kills me is having no idea of when the next chapter is coming, or having several chapters released quickly but done in MS Paint.
Some series simply demand quality releases.

>>119288907
I hope you're not bullying the SFX notes!

>>119288861
I was carefully selecting it and using notepad as a reference

thanks

>>119288861
I hear that if you have too many fonts installed, your boot-ups will be slowed down. For me, I use that folder because only Adobe software will get that whole pack of font, and not everything else. It's also easier to update/swap fonts in and out with that.

>>119288838
I do. It still looks better.

>>119288987
I'll give it a try, already installed most of what I should need though. I've got (pretty much empty) FontsRequired and FontsRecommended folders already, should I use one of those or make a new Fonts one?

>>119288994
To each his own, the font rendering is terrible so I don't know how vivid colours affect you more than that.

>>119289098
Make a new Fonts folder and dump the fonts in there.

For example, for me, akbar.ttf looks like this:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\akbar.ttf

>>119288501
>lazy entitled typsetters
You're the worst kind of shitheads to work with. I care about the quality of my work because it's a hobby. I'm invested in my final product, and when I'm stuck with some procrastinating /v/ermin that would rather play videogames than do the work they've agreed to do, and use the excuse "well I don't get paid enough to do a good job XD" it poisons the dynamic of the entire group.

Fucks like you are why there are so few decent translators and typesetters. Nobody wants to get invested in a project if that one procrastinating deadbeat is just going to ruin it for the rest of the group.

>>119289181
Input Sans is not the best font. Too lazy to change it. I am also using MacType.

>>119289199
Looks like it worked, thanks for the tip. Not sure if I really feel like going through all my installed fonts to take out the scanlation ones I just put in though.

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>>119289265
>Mactype
You, I like you.

How important is it, generally speaking in manga/doujin translation to preserve particular speech convention?

For example, if the original phrases an outright statement arbitrarily as a rhetorical question, how important is it to preserve the phrasing as a question? Is it a case-by-case basis sort of thing?

>>119289265
Kinda sad it's only an improvement with bigger font sizes, and not every font gets a huge improvement either way, if only Windows improved that aspect for win7.

>>119289252
I haven't met any or hired entitled slaves myself, but I know too well about the lazy jerks who signed up.

I leaned out my group and kept a core group of guys who were hugely responsible for every project. For me, I do everything after getting the raws and the tl script. Hard work when the page counts are 50+ and lines are long and complex, but I get to work at my own pace and bring quality to the final product.

>>119289371
It always looked weird for me on Windows because I use small fonts. I should probably just switch to Linux, but I play too many games.

>>119289535
Or get a Mac

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>>119289464
Definitely case-by-case. I don't do translations, but it's easy to spot a sarcastic remark. If you can get something similar in the form of a question, good stuff. But no one will take points off you just because you chose another way to phrase it.

>>119289585
Still doesn't solve the problem.

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>>119287108
It looks great, except for one thing . . . those fonts.
You're better off using a regular comic dialogue font, instead of a fancy script font like the ones you used (if you're the one that did the typesetting). It gets to be distracting.
I did a quick and dirty retyping in Paint, using Back Issues font to show how it would look with a more traditional dialogue font.

How do you organize the file names?

name - Vol. 01 - page 01

or

name - V01C01 - Page 01

>>119289732
If what you did is the right then it looks like shit.

>>119289535
You know Wine's a thing, right?

>>119289751
Individual pages? No one gives a shit as long as they're sorted in the right order.

>scanlators does it for free
>expecting quality

>b-but muh donations!
Your donations are nothing but spare change to us

>>119289820
Yeah, but my computer is pretty potato.

>>119289732
the lowercase one is cute though

>>119286875
Quality because anyone barely bothers to do tank scans so you might as well do a quality release instead of just downloading the raw of a tank and sadly compare it to a fast release.

>>119289751
I keep the original names the raw provider gave.

>>119289820
Not him, but I scanlated on Wine for a while. Never again, getting Photoshop and the plugins I needed to work was such a bitch.

>>119289464
I wouldn't say it's particularly important for the translation to be a grammatical question just because the source is. What matters is that the same meaning is conveyed. If it would sound awkward to use a question there in English, then don't.
But you have to keep the overall context in mind. If someone 'answers' the question (even though it was rhetorical), then the translation may end up sounding weird if it doesn't use a question.
So yeah, it's very much case-by-case.

>>119289841
He does it for free!

>>119289751
[name] v01.7z
[name] v01 p01.png

>>119289890
The best thing about manga is that you can be extremely liberal with your script editing. The moonrunes are erased, so no one will know better. Feel free to make significant adjustments to make your lines flow better.

They both exist on an axis. After a certain level of qaulity, a majority of users will not see the difference, and at the same time, if the quality is bad enough, the speed does not matter.

>>119289938
>01
>0

I never liked folders

>>119286875

Speed, because "quality" in scanlation is mostly just a buzzword for out-of-control photoshop autism.

>>119288654

>le dark as my soul

m-muh e-eyes!!

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>>119289732
Not going to lie, that font you used looks awful. All upper case fonts are bad.
I have the advantage of looking at the raws, which I scanned too, and I know your fonts don't really match. I said it was a solo project, so I obviously typeset it.
Plus each character has their own font for dialog and thought in the raws as well. I'll stick with my original fonts, thanks for the input, though.

You can clearly see how Madoka's font is very stylistic even in the raw.

>>119289751
name #.zip

name#_0001.png

Speed, OP
Scanlators bitch about mangapanda a lot but the leechers prefer em anyways. In conclusion, as long as its fast, people will still read the shit.

>>119287556
>manwha readers.
I wish koreaboos would just kill themselves.

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i just want scanlators to not pay to hold back raws. i don't want to be the guy who hates it when a comic i read gets popular, but a pattern i see time and time again is that when scanlators pick a series up the monthly or weekly raws suddenly stop showing up.

>>119290091
This guy gets it

>>119290061
You're correct, I meant to write v1 and v1 p1, respectively.

>>119290334
My True Blacks
My grays
My perfect redrawing

Sometimes it's just about the e-pen, I'm not going to lie.

>>119286875
speed as long as the page isnt so small I can't read it.

>>119290306
I've never heard of any scanlators doing that. Most of the time share raws and scanlation raws are scanned by different people with no effect on the other.

If you could go back in time and give yourself advice on photoshop and scanlating, what would you say?

Speed nowadays.
Look at the shieldbro manga, cleans looks good but other than that its shit.

>>119290516
Stop trying to make credits pages and just put the names in small text on the last page. Keeps the people who want credit happy, you don't have to do extra work, and readers get to skip the extra page.

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Anyone know of a good font that is similar to this?
I've looked for hours before and could never find anything even remotely similar.

>>119290602
Try Wahroonga with faux bold turned on.

Does anyone know why Dengeki Daioh public raws suddenly stopped being available?

>>119286875
speed - as long as the final result actually bears sentences with some meaning, it can then be rewritten with proper typesetting/grammar/punctuation. of course though, just having it done right from the start is always the better action

>>119290448
>I've never heard of any scanlators doing that
You're living under a rock, m8. Scanlators withholding raws or putting them behind paywalls is becoming increasingly common, especially with the chinese.

>>119290711
ER scans a ton of series from like five different magazines for a few groups (myself included), and he just stopped caring enough to scan all of Daioh too.

>>119290675
That's not bad. But's also not all that close.

>>119290588
I add a credits page purely because most places such as mangapark and mangafox remove it. I also don't like adding unnecessary text to the actual pages of the manga as it clutters them up.

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>>119290588
Put this shit on one of your pages, fill it up with names, and you're gold.

>>119290516
Put your groups name in the script.
>"Norway!"

>>119290801
Damn, okay. At least it's a good reason.

>>119290787
I'm talking English scanlators, not chingchong.

>>119290818
That's from a Daioh series, right? I'd just use the one that's already there, but I tend to use volume raws so that'd obviously be out of place.

>>119290872
Nope. I got it from a Comp Ace series.

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>>119289807
>>If what you did is the right then it looks like shit.

Is it the font that looks like shit? I'm not a big fan of it myself, I just wanted to try it out since it looked interesting, but it's probably not one I'd use all the time.
Did another quick and dirty retype in Paint using Monologous font instead to better illustrate the point I was originally making.

>>119290148
>>All upper case fonts are bad

Wow, that's the first time I've heard that. I fundamentally disagree.

>>I'll stick with my original fonts, thanks for the input, though.

To each their own, I guess. If you like it and the people that read it like it, that should be good enough, I guess.

>>119290920
Huh, looks exactly like the Daioh one.