Scanlation thread #reload

Post your recent rips, you weebs.

>>113289060
no

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I wasted two perfectly good hours in that last Scanlation thread, and now I have to go to sleep without having scanned anything.

>stops being a NEET
>Now takes 3x times longer to edit

Good for me, bad for you, I guess. Not like I'm a particular fast one to begin with.

These threads fascinate me. I wish I was capable of this magic.

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Have scans for "????????????" popped up yet? I could've sworn I saw someone post a page, but I can't find that thread.

>>113289798
>capable
You can. These aren't exactly skills that require unique talents to pick up and get good at.
What's stopping you?

>>113289862
He don't want to do it for free.

>>113289862
Providing you're only typesetting or cleaning.

>>113289862
PS cost money.

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>>113289920

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So is this the thread where I procrastinate with shitposts?

>>113289920
Cute.

>>113289920
I'm doing it in GIMP.

>>113290091
not yet,let goes back to real topic.

DKThias just poped up on >>113289991
so go ask him if you guy need any raw i gues.

Anyone from Roselia here? I'd like to know why the fuck NieA_7 scanlation died off.

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What the worst page in terms of redraw you've ever worked on?

>>113290193
Someone post that page from Prison School.

>>113290166

Go post on their site.

>>113290193
Just looking at this makes me want to die

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tfw you run out of fucks

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I actually finished the first chapter, but I'm not sure where to upload because it's quite NSFW but also not a hentai so it can't go to sadpanda.

>>113291374
>aliasing on the text
I get the feeling that none of you people care about that.

>>113291451
Doesn't look completely aliased, though he could stand to fuck around with it a bit more so it doesn't look as jaggy

>>113291374
go to /e/?

>>113291374

Scanlation? Just post a Mediafire and let the rest sort itself out.

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>>113291363

>>113291516
Nah, man, it's bad. Especially second line.
One could blame Photoshop for being shitty at this, but I rather blame people who don't try to improve it.

>>113288959
>typesetting/translating/ripping
Personally I'm scanning my C86 loot hoping that some of it will get picked up translating and typesetting

>>113291600
No, that's not that feel at all

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>>113289804
Might have been me.
There's the first two chapters floating around at least. I got commissioned by a kind soul to scan the first volume

>>113291720

Oh, cool, then I'll check your blog later for scans.

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>>113291678

>>113291743
>that australian feel when

>>113291742
Unfortunately I'll most likely hand over the raws to the commissioner directly. I'm not all to comfortable with posting this on my blog as crazy as that sounds

>>113289913
Only translating require some sort of skills. Everybody who is not completely retarded, can produce great scans.

>>113291817

That's dildos. Not even an anon Mediafire link?

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>>113291761
i have transcended australia

>>113291374
Madokami.

>>113291847
I'm a paid goon so I do as I'm told. You could email me about it and I could try to setup some kind of deal with the original commissioner

>>113291880

Nah, don't worry about it. I'll just ask someone else to provide scans. Any idea if they intend to scanlate it?

>>113291907
No but I'm quite sure the commissioner would like to see it scanlated as do I

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Oh yeah,i had done cleaned first chapter of Hokusai to Meshi Saeareba,if any anon feel like to scanlate it you can pick it up and typeset away:

https://mega.co.nz/#!qgh3jDpS!LnguenZXhI9o6WIsSrwgk19H_QWsxgq-hHIpQTEVjok

>>113291819
Scanning requires money and time. Using a flatbed scanner and swapping pages one by one is probably tedious and boring as hell.

>>113291819
Redraws require some skill, too.

>>113292020
Tell me about it. Nothing like standing in one spot for couple of hours swapping pages and checking there's no dirt on the scanner glass every now and then

>>113292008

Thanks, but the first series isn't even scanlated.

>>113291819
I'd fucking hate to scan anything, spending all that time and money to import a book only to rip it apart

>>113292065
Staring at the screen with 200% zoom for hours ain't fun either.

>>113292148
I know that pain too as I clean leftover paper dirt by hand from my scans

>>113292121
I don't think I have it in me to destroy a book like that. Even if I ordered two copies I still wouldn't want to ruin one of them.

>>113292250
So what, only translators get the fun part?

>>113292266

It's easier if you just tell yourself that you're providing HQ scans so that potentially thousands of readers can enjoy it. I keep the dust jackets, the rest goes in a drawer somewhere.

>>113292104
I know,the story won't be effected as the time of this one is set as 8 years before the first one,and every chapter is pretty much one-short anyway.

>>113292121
The result is allway worth it,believe me.

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>>113288959
>What manga are you typesetting/translating/ripping?
Finishing up Takkoku 30

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Can someone explain to what's happening here?
If I zoom out the back ground copy layer looks drastically different than the background itself. And even though the image is in gray scale there are yellow spots in the copy, but not the original.

>>113292283
Yes. TL-ing is fun and least time consuming if you're competent. Whereas things like scanning and typsetting will still be time consuming no matter how competent you become.

>>113293179
Speak for yourself m8

>>113290193
How do you even redraw this?

Is there any kind of pastebin or tutorial on how to do this stuff?

>>113294021
So which hand do you want us to hold while we spoonfeed you?

>>113294011
by having tons of time and autism

>>113294244
Sounds like /a/ would be good at it

To the guy wanting to decrypt Comic Walker files from Android, I can officially say that it's not practical at all. They went out of their way to make it practically impossible for someone else to to come and figure it out. I looked into it quite a bit to see if it was actually feasible, but they've hidden it behind compiled object files and shared libraries and a bunch of data about your device in hard to distinguish manner. I know it uses AES, but what goes in as input is hard to know and I don't know if they have a straight implementation of t, or something hidden behind the compiled code.

>>113292657
I don't see any of these yellow spots you're talking about.

>>113296032
Is it possible to get the files the good ol' memory dumping way?

>>113297045
I'm not sure what you mean by that.

I mean, I could probably write a patched version of the app which is simply cracked and either:
a. Sets the encryption variables to things I'll know.
b. Writes out the files somewhere else.
c. Writes out what the encryption variables are.

I imagine a. would be the better option. But I haven't done much stuff like this before. I've only patched something before but with a very well defined guide. This would simply be me writing in bytecode.

>>113297229
http://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=92167

Take this DMM ripper for example, it determines where the decrypted images are stored in process' memory and dumps them while it's running. Of course this is kind of a lame way to un-DRM things but it works and is lossless.

>>113298513
This would be on a mobile. I have no idea how different it is. I mean, there's already a way to rip them simply from the online interface. Seems like a lot more effort than it's worth.

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https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/blambot/sequentialist-bb/

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>>113300255
Good looking fonts, thanks.

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Daily reminder to watch your lining.

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>honorifics

>>113291374
Send it to Habanero scans to put on their site and then announce it on mangaupdates, then at least the internet will know it exists.

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>iron won't work
>too scared to toss a book into the microwave
Doushio /a/

>>113303266
The fuck are you trying to achieve?

>>113303285
Debinding. Iron's working now though, so nevermind.

>>113303266
That sucks. What are you debinding?
Got a hair dryer?

>>113290193
I could do that if you give me a few days. Would I want to? Probably not, which is why I'm glad I have TLs soon after raws are handed over to me to make it easier.

>>113303266
Just fucking microwave it, you pussy.

Pop it in for 15-second intervals if you're that scared.

You're less likely to burn yourself and you can drink your coffee while you watch it slowly open up.

>>113303983
Pretty sure he's more worried about burning the book than burning himself.

>>113303983
>You're less likely to burn yourself and you can drink your coffee while you watch it slowly open up

God these poor books

>tfw not skilled enough in nippon to scanlate anything

>>113304338
Then do something else for scanlation

>>113304435
I feel like I could typeset fine, but where would I find somebody to translate accurately?

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>Spend 45 minutes trying to get a redrawn hand/arm to look right
>Practically every pixel of the redraw is covered up by the typesetting anyway

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So /a/.
You guys think this dude is right at being pissed?

>>113304635
This is why I always do all the editing myself, so that shit like that won't happen to me ever again.

Excited for stuff from Comitia 109 to show up...

>>113304674
Hell no. Fuck, a redditor making more sense than him is even hilarious.

>>113304674
The funny thing is that he's right.
I mean I'd get pissed too if someone stole a manga I was working on.

>>113290193
Can someone post the redraw? I'm an amateur who sucks at redraws and would like to see some work from people who are god at it. Not just that one. Any redraws comparing the raw to the redrawn would be cool to look at.

>>113304786
What do you mean stole? You're not the mangaka.

>>113304674
What series and how slow were they going? Still no though. Scanlation groups fucking love drama. Shit's lame. Calm the fuck down and put the word on the page.

>>113304010
You won't burn the book unless you put it in for like 60 seconds.

Put it in for like 15-30 until the cover starts opening up, then check it and microwave in 10-15 segments until it's hot enough to take stuff out.

NEVER leave it in long enough that the pages are curling in on themselves or turning brown.

tl;dr don't be stupid

>>113304674
It always sucks to have someone doing it faster than you, but that's how it is. I've been on both ends of the issue. Sometimes it's worth doing the HQ if you know people will be reading it, and sometimes it's not, if you're driving yourself insane trying to keep up.

You don't hear fansubbers complaining that a shit group did it faster than them.

Then again, the people who download anime usually have a lot of options for groups and thus actually choose one over the other. Manga readers usually just go with whatever's fastest since they're not used to having to deal with choice.

It's really a pity.

>>113303983
>watch it slowly open up.
>>113305532
>until the cover starts opening up

Are there good videos of this? Sounds kind of cool. I wouldn't want to try it myself without watching someone else do it to see what I should be looking for though.

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>>113304843

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>>113304843
>>113305800

>>113305781
I have to microwave one soon. I guess I could make a video if people on /a/ are really that interested.

>>113305781
do it to any cheap useless book you have.

>>113288959

Have a chapter due in 3 days

57 pages, literally 3-4 bubbles of text or more each page

2-3 different fonts for most of them.

How am I supposed to do this?

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>>113305800
>>113305879
Jesus Christ. Fuck that mess, you couldn't pay me to work on something like that. Props on that redraw though.

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>>113305800
>>113305879

This is why I feel weird when people call my work "redraws." I can fix up the top of someone's head covered by text or random background objects pretty well, but something like this I wouldn't stand a chance with. I don't have actual artistic talent, I've just been playing with photoshop for years.

>>113305800
>>113305879

Holy shit.

>>113306117
To be fair, they didn't do the left girl's hair very accurately. It looks nice, but they replaced the fine details of the hair by making it fatter with one smooth curve.

It's still unnoticeable and is well done, though.

>>113305965
Step up faggot

>>113305965
Only 2-3 different fonts? Sounds easy as shit. You should have that done in less than a day.

>>113305965
If it's just typesetting you have to do, it's not too bad. If you have to go from raw scan to finished in three days, even if you don't have many or any redraws, you should probably leave this thread and get going.

Also, why does it have to be done in 3 days? Can't you delay a day or two? I'm not exactly in a group so I'm not used to having that kind of restriction.

>>113288959
Not the exactly right place but what are you, people, using now to download Batoto-only releases? Since they moved the server Free Manga Downloader doesn't work and my retardation won't allow me to read manga online. Thanks for anything useful.

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>>113306578

>>113307105
Reminder that it's too late to change your hikikomori ways, and that's good because there are chapters that need doing.

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>>113288959
I'm working on Kiseijuu (not English scanlation). I finished translating it like three years ago. Finished cleans and redraws for the whole thing almost two years ago and now for the past two years I have been typesetting it. Typesetting is my least favourite part of scanlating process.

>>113307397
>Typesetting is my least favourite part of scanlating process.
It's by far the easiest, though. What's taking so long?

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A reminder to either blur all your text layers or rasterize and only then downscale whole image. This will fix aliasing and make text look natural on the page.

>>113307447

Probably the overwork and tedium that comes with working a project solo for so long.

>>113307599
But that's how I do all my projects.

>>113305965
>2-3 different fonts

Step the fuck up.

Just do it. Put on music and do it.

Typesetting is fun.

>>113308246
Preparing fonts ain't fun, though. I remember spending hours trying to find fitting fonts.
Speaking of them, anyone tried stealing fonts by putting character map into font editing software?

>>113308626
>I remember spending hours trying to find fitting fonts.
I always do that. I also have like 400 fonts I never use because they suck and never delete because I'm retarded.

>>113308668
>400
The more you have the worse it gets.
It's like all those thousands of screencaps I'll never get to post here.

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>>113308937
>Initializing Type Tool...

>>113308626
Really? I mean I have a bajillion fonts, but there a certain few I like to use for certain font roles.

It helps to have something like this which you can refer to.

>>113307447
> What's taking so long?
Well, I like translating so I'm mostly translating stuff (I think I got about fifteen translated volumes of various series' I haven't even started cleaning yet). I like redrawing because it's challenging. Typesetting is simply boring to me. But now I'm going vigorously to finish it before anime adaptation starts since I'm going to be translating that, too. There are already two shit groups planning to translating it in my country and they will most likely drop it after a few episodes but I believe that Iwaaki deserves a decent translation.

Also, since I'm focusing on high-quality scanlation, I'm always waiting for volume scans but I'm struggling to find good raws for some projects I'm already releasing so I'm going to buy a scanner in a few months and going to get into scanning. Hopefully, it won't be too long since I will be able to scan Iwaaki's Black Jack manga. Since he's my favourite author and I love Tezuka.

>>113309142
Have you considered getting someone to do your TS for you?

>>113309142
You're going to find scanning 10 times more boring than typesetting, trust me. Typesetting is a fucking godsend in comparison.

>>113309341
Tell me about it. I'm in the middle of doing that right now and I'm only 30 pages into a 200 page tank and blasting Mogra just barely breaks the monotony.

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>>113309108
>It helps to have something like this which you can refer to.
Step up. With this shit can I scroll through 500 fonts at once at great speed. Also, when loaded it temporarily install/load all these fonts so you can try them in Photoshop as well.

>>113309341
I should really try getting into typesetting sometime. Been scanning and cleaning all day long and just about done uploading todays stuff to sadpanda

>>113309866
I downloaded that and completely forgot about it.

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>>113309866
Holy fuck, is there a mac version?

>>113288959
Currently doin the new chapter of Ore to Akuma no Blues. Tl'ing it and doing a cancer job on cleaning and Typesetting because too much effort.

>>113310569
>cleaning
It's a digital raw. What the fuck are you doing there?

>>113310670
Shit son I meant Redrawing. Im retarded

>>113311108
Typeset before redrawing and you'll have less of a bad time.

>>113311471
I kind of wish we did this so I wouldn't spend time redrawing things that are just going to get covered up. But then again it gives the typesetter a bit more freedom in positioning things and choosing styles and such if you do the redrawing first, right? If I were doing a solo project, that's definitely how I would do it though. Too bad I don't speak moon.

>>113310569
>>113310670
>>113311108
Technically redrawing is part of cleaning which is part of editing.

Did anyone ever end up picking up the new chapter of Me and the Devil Blues?

>>113303983
I burned a book once. Switched to using an iron.

>>113312915
Look at the posts right above you.

>>113312915

My bad, 4chanX didn't update the thread.

>>113312915
Yea ive got like 6-7 pages done. But my redraws/lack of redraws makes me feel like im butchering the art.

How does this anon's release look?

>>113313510

>>113313901
it's underleveled, the one redraw is shitty, typesetting is nothing great but serviceable.

>>113315306

Yeah, I finally downloaded it and looked at it myself. Oh well.

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>>113315306
You mean the blacks are overleveled?

The resolution is 1400 height, so I think it's from a pub raw. The ones that were being worked on before were from a french source with better scans.

IDK where the translator/scanner went, but we did finish chapter 4 and chapter 5 (pretty much.)

>>113315761

You might be able to find those French scans online.

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>>113316338

Doubt it, the translator was scanning his own copy as we finished chapters. The Japanese pub raws are easy enough to find, but the quality is not very good.

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>>113305800
>>113305879
Here's also a webm of it fading into the other, had to resize for 4chan.

>>113316662
>spend 5 hours straight
>from 4 am to 8 am

Never gets old.

>>113316662
>mangas

>>113296032
I don't know why you're focusing on the Android Comic Walker, as you can easily sniff out the required files on a desktop computer, and well I'm the anon who was gonna look into that ruby gem if that's who you're directing your post towards.

>>113316662
Kisu KMS were such fuck ups. I almost got them to quit but Batoto devs had to interfere.

>>113316578

Where are your 2400px pages coming from, then?

>>113317071

The person who scanned them...?

>>113310194
It's not NexusFont, but take your pick anon, there's not a lot of free choices here
http://alternativeto.net/software/nexusfont/?platform=mac

>>113317230

So...?

>>113316338

Can you not use the French scans instead?

>>113317274

I don't understand what you are getting at. The scanner was scanning his personal copy. It was a french source. He was scanning as we finished chapters, meaning he didn't scan the entire book. The scanner went MIA. Hence no complete french source scan. If there is a public scan of the french source, that's another story.

>>113317385

What chapters do you have scans of, then? I recall Old Man being a chapter later on in v1.

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>>113316662
>Maintenance of Website ($20-$100)
Their website is absolute cancer anyway.

>>113292008
Thanks dude, I had just finished translating a bunch. I'll see what I can do.

>>113317495

Old man is chapter 5. I still have the PSDs of 2-5. 4 & 5 are missing some SFX typeset but everything else was done.

>>113316662
You know what the best way to show people how hard you work is?

Make a video of a hard redraw or a typeset, then put it on your website along with the release.

I did that a few times and it was like magic.

>>113317734

Can you just put the translation over the French scans, then? I don't know how far the translation went up to from JP->ENG.

>>113317754
I don't want to people to see all the lazy redrawing I do.

>>113317817

4&5 did get translated and typeset (everything was done except a few sfx weren't set.) The problem is that the other person went MIA and I am not gonna release it on my own (also never had access to the blog he was running.)

The current releases are using the JP pub raw scans, which are 1400 height, but with a comic like cat soup, you're probably not losing that much.

hey guys, its me again.

Im currently training my cleaning skills. Do you have any images that I could train on? Some favs of yours that you'd want to look better?

I'd also need some feedback.

>>113318255

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. IIRC the other person working on Nekojiru went MIA because the French two-pass translations weren't that great (hence reason to use the JP-ENG translations). You have superior scans - why not use them?

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>>113318336

>>113318352

I think it's just a situation where you're trying to fill in the gaps of why certain things weren't done and I'm not spending paragraphs explaining why.

After I cleaned up 4 and 5 the other person sent it to me typeset, but I didn't get back to them for a while since I got busy with other projects. When I did get back to them, they didn't respond (I guess they just stopped checking the email they had set up specifically for the project.) Though I have better scans of chapter 2-5, I'm not about to use the guys scans or release them on my own. Also if I wanted to translate it JP -> Eng I could do that myself.

>>113318616

All right.

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>>113318336

>>113318706

if you cannot fix the join properly you should at least try to get rid of the gutter shadow.

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>>113318336
Have fun.

>>113318706
That might actually be worse.

>>113318706
You need to go back to the basics of topaz.

>>113318706
That's pretty shitty and you didn't even fix the crease.

>>113318934
>using Topaz
The raw doesn't even need it

>>113318849
When will Kano Yasuhiro get another series? Mx0 was so fucking good.

>>113319055
I'm saying that because he used topaz on it.

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>>113318733

best i can do atm

>>113318849

holy shit

i'll try

>>113318706
The only fix it needed was redrawing the stuff that was lost in the middle because of the crease. Redrawing is technically part of cleaning, so you're going to want to develop those artistic skills.

>>113318934

I will try, any advices?

>>113319055
>>113319252

>the only fix it needed was redrawing the stuff in the middle

wrong, i clearly said I am practicing my cleaning (which includes leveling and other stuff) , I never said anything about redrawing stuff.

>>113319169

Is it just me, or is that too much Topaz?

I TL and TS so I don't know much about it.

>>113319308
Redrawing is part of the cleaning process. It didn't need to be leveled. You removed a bunch of details.

>>113319330

I'll try to hold off a bit on denoize 5 as I see that's the one creating the problems.

I also only TS atm, this is literally one of the first attempts at cleaning.

>>113319330
It is too much Topaz. This person thinks they know what they're doing now because they found a plugin to think for them.

>>113319396
You should check out a few guides.

I'm sure some of the anons in the thread could point you in the right direction.

>>113319169
Nigger please, you're spamming filters too much. Lower the settings. You can't just spam nuke pages and call it a day, that's what's wrong with groups like RHS and chinks.

>>113319308
>any advices?
Don't fucking spam it.

>>113319330
I'd say he just went retarded with Topaz. Topaz is not a magic shit that'll do everything for you.

>>113319252
A lot of groups have dedicated redrawers now-a-days, it's really pitiful how "cleaners" will have the redrawers do some of the most basic redraws, I can understand if you don't have the artistic ability to redraw something like >>113316676 but easy stuff you should really know how to do.

>>113319308
Except redrawing is the most important part to cleaning, any idiot can move some dots around to get things leveled and use denoise.

>>113319308
Only use denoise when you have to, denoise isn't a catch all tool to be used, you use it when it's absolutely needed and only then.

>>113319169
I never even edited chink comics and I find those patterns on uniforms and sky fucking disgusting.

>>113319169
I feel like I'm back in 2009.

>>113319552
>A lot of groups have dedicated redrawers now-a-days
Well I'm a newbie, but I came into this thinking cleaners didn't do redraws and I learned quickly that they do. I think it's important that people don't make that mistake because these past couple threads have undoubtedly piqued some people's interests in getting involved. If you want to clean you should be ready and willing to do redraws.

Thankfully I work on an easy series so there's nothing crazy, but it's still a challenge for me and I think it's a good first step before I think about trying to join a real group.

>>113319729
Yea I totally agree, I was just pointing out that some people are led to believe that because a group has redrawers they don't have to do ANY redraws when they are only really around to do the really difficult redraws. I feel bad for our groups redrawer, despite the groups size we only have really have 1 guy who does them and people waste his time with such easy redraws.

>>113319252
>develop those artistic skills.

Honestly it doesn't even feel like artistic skills. It's more like attention to detail and lots of free time. Most of it is already there for you and all you really need to do is fill in the blanks. Pen tool makes smooth curves because I can't. Clone stamp will fill in screentones.

I've got 11/24 pages of last (or even previous already) chapter of Dorohedoro translated and typeset, but anon who did translation disappeared after doing those 9 pages (we had to use GoogleTL for couple lines after anon bailed). Anyone want to translate it and proofread previously translated pages? Because those "please donate ^^" shojo faggots are slow and two months behind on monthly series.

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>>113318849

is this better?

i missed some dust btw.

>>113320313
Why the small resolution?

>>113320313

honestly i feel like i over-leveled this one

im sorry anons, im a disgrace at cleaning.

have a good day.

>>113320504
You just need to dial it back. And maybe instead of just throwing Topaz at it, try doing some things manually first. A surface blur can help reduce noise.and make it easier to get your blacks black and whites white without having to level as much.

>>113320264

Being 2 months behind on a monthly series that's in a magazine that's ending so there's going to be a gap in time before when it's possible to catch up isn't a big deal. Fallen Syndicate does a fine job on Dorohedoro and they don't even ask for donations on the chapters, only their site. If you're resorting to using GoogleTL then you're really not going to give the work a worthwhile representation. If you want to speed up the scans that badly, just go apply to help for the series and do it that way.

>>113320604

i removed a lot of the noise via burn & hard brush on hard blacks, I don't do only topaz and think im done.

>>113320698
The main thing is just that you don't want to lose details like you did with that creased page.

>>113320737

it's probably because I use too much supress on denoize 3, i'll keep trying.

thank you anon.

>>113320784
Yeah, man. Keep at it. No one just has this shit figured out immediately. Pretty much everything involves a lot of trial and error and you never stop learning.

>>113304674
People need to stop caring about "they stole our project". No one owns the shit. Just work on whatever you want to and not give a fuck about anything else.

>>113320313
This one's pretty good. Only thing I see is a couple spots where the screentones got messed up in the top left panel but you can easily fix those with a clone tool and a big soft eraser.

For today's topic I'd like to propose "Why the fuck are using so much different fonts despite the raw not having as much variety."
Really, why people use different font for shouts while in the raw it's the same dialogue font, just bold and big. Panel speaks for itself, you don't need any other shit you personally think is appropriate to stylize just to emphasize what's happening.

>>113321228
Because while it may look fine in Japanese it doesn't look good in English, it's simple as that.

>>113321268
Wild Words looks fine for 80% of dialogue.

>>113321228
>>113321312
This was brought up earlier, there just aren't near as many Japanese fonts and the publishers probably don't care about it near as much as scanlators, so they just go with what works.
>Wild Words looks fine for 80% of dialogue.
Not everyone is an underachiever.

>>113321228
In my few years of cleaning I've seen the nips use many fonts as I've seen typesetters I've work with use, which is well over 30.

>while in the raw it's the same dialogue font, just bold and big.
I've also seen them many times use a different type of font, which is much thicker, for shit like that. Especially when it's outside bubbles in the backgrounds.

>>113321380
How many fonts can you possibly want? A font for shouts, a cutesy font, a font for cellphones/computers, a font for handwritten stuff, a scary font and use fitting fonts for stuff like titles and taglines and such.

Everything else you use Wild Words.

This might be something kinda insignificant, but do you guys take out the page number in the corner of the pages? It just seems like it'd make the page itself look a bit cleaner.

>>113321648
I never bother unless the series need's it's borders redrawn then just be consequence of how I redraw borders I remove it.

>>113321648
I don't unless part of it is cut out. Otherwise I always leave it there.

>>113321622
>Everything else you use Wild Words
Please stop.
>>113321648
Only on magazine raws.

>>113321723
Please explain to me what other fonts you could possibly want, you aren't one of those autists that gives each character their own personal fonts are you?

>>113321774
The nips do that too, you know.

I have to say after becoming a TSer I've developed a dislike for some fonts, Wild Words is still fine with me but goddamn I'm loathing Anime Ace now, will that shit just die already.

>>113316662
This image isn't exactly a good resume as far as typesetting is concerned.

>>113321810
I'm still okay with AA, but I really wish people stopped forcing CC Astro City. It's an awful font for dialogue and RH should feel bad for pushing it so much.

>>113321810
Do people even use Anime Ace anymore?

>>113321774
My point is that there are fonts other than fucking WildWords. If I see that character has its own font in the raw, I use different font as well.

>>113321864
The only group I can think of that still uses Anime Ace is FoolRulez but they are pretty much dead so I don't know if I should count them. It seems like CCMeanwhile has been a trend for a year or 2.

>>113321774
If the autor uses a different font for bit of text I'm going to stick with the autor's choice and use a font that matches what was used.

>>113321864
I'm still seeing plenty of new releases with it, often from official sources like Crunchy to boost.

>>113321975
Authors barely ever choose the fonts, it's usually their editors that do all the typesetting unless the mangaka does things digitally. What they hand in is all handwritten.

>>113321795
It really annoys me when they do this, it just looks so ugly. Maybe I'm just use to one single font from all the /lit/ I read.

>>113321903
>>113321975
I've only done this like 3 or 4 times because the unique font really impacted the feel you had for the character. So I will do it if it changes the feel of things, but I don't bother otherwise.

>>113321852
When I was first starting out typesetting I was looking for fonts I looked into Astro City because of RH and I was just kinda impressed such a shitty font was used by such a big group.

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>>113321228
Japanese =/= English.

>>113322084
>following these shitty guides religiously

>>113322084
Meh, no need to change fonts that much.

>>113321864
I used it in my first ever release alongside a bit of Arial, when I was just typesetting to help someone out and wasn't fully clued in with what fonts to use. I'm alright now though.

>>113321852
>I really wish people stopped forcing CC Astro City
It's a good font for dialogue in a very small number of cases, but otherwise I think it's pretty good for either thoughts, TL notes, or any translations of things for which you aren't going to remove the JP text and instead leave a note beside the panel (SFX and maybe some signs, for example).

>>113321622
>>113321774
I use different fonts for standard dialogue depending on the manga, of which Wild Words is usually tolerable, but often an inferior choice that can kill the atmosphere of a given work. Also, you need fonts for titles and fonts for shouts, both of which could vary depending on the manga and may even need different ones in the same manga. You'll also need fonts to fit certain styles, a few handwriting fonts, fonts for thoughts, narration, notes, etc

>>113322425
Did you read what I posted?
>A font for shouts, a cutesy font, a font for cellphones/computers, a font for handwritten stuff, a scary font and use fitting fonts for stuff like titles and taglines and such.

I'll occasionally use a different shouting font if it's very clear in the raw that it's a different kind of shout than what I typically use, as for thoughts I just use Wild Words with italics.

You guys do realize you're arguing over semantics that vary depending on people's opinions right?

>>113322645
Where do you think you are?

>>113322645
What else would we talk about in these threads?

>>113322658
The point of doing that is that it will look better at a smaller size. Releasing at 3000 is also silly because you're just releasing bloat.

>>113270253 (Cross-thread)
or you could just leave it at 3000
if your going to put in that much effort anything below 2000 is a waste

>>113322686
Shit, you got me there.

Comiccraft or Blambot?

>>113322760
Not one, but twice. Good job, faggot. Will you screw up a third time?

>>113322702
I noticed that downscaling from 3000 may fuck up screentone.

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>>113322702
there is a clear difference in quality with scanlators who release at higher resolutions

>>113322836
That depends to what size you're downscaling and how you cleaned it.

>>113322605
I probably should have stated my point more explicitly. The point is that the choice of font for standard dialogue or shouts or whatever can be dependent on the manga you're working on. The way you're getting around this is by using fairly nondescript fonts like Wild Words, but as I said, this just looks plain and can kill the atmosphere. Just pick a few fonts for a series before you start work on it and add more if you need them, but don't always fall back on the same few fonts.

>>113322869
The tones look like shit there, though. I've always wanted to let them know but any time someone says something that critiques the MM scanlations you get told to fuck off. People like /a/nonscanlations were one of the few that did it right.

>>113322869
It always confuses me why the groups I work for insist I reduce 1800px or 2000px raws down to 1200px.

>>113323012
They probably don't want chapters to be bigger than a few MBs.

>>113323012
they still working on their computer from the 90s

>>113322961

Just email them instead of posting on /a/.

>>113322880
What's a good ratio to downscale to? I remember having a page with dot screentone that after downscaling ended up making visible lines.

>>113323112
Who do you think are the ones that tell people to fuck off?

>>113322961
Person who works on MM here.

You can always send us an email and let us know how to make them look better.

Not like we're some sekrit club that doesn't take suggestions.

With how ungrateful people are nowadays,
translations should be done for commission
fees..

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>>113323120
always go high

>>113323120
It varies depending on the tones used and the original resolution of the raws you got. Some releases will look good at 1600, some not.

>>113323092
It hardly increases it's like a 5 MB difference max. Maybe they don't want to pay the extra money on FTP bandwidth, fucking jews.

>>113323223
>that shitty typesetting

>>113323223
>lowercase font

no

>>113323167
Don't burn the pages so much would be a good start. It ruins the antialiasing and doing it at high resolution won't help much when downscaling.

>>113323386
Well, lowercase font might work pretty well in serious manga.

>>113323197
>With how ungrateful people are nowadays, translations should be done for commission fees..
They are for H-manga and Doujinshi, and the people that do take commissions do occasionally take on non-H stuff, which is helpful if there's no other way to get something you really want to read translated, though I don't want to go down that route.

Fansubs and Scanlations were born out of a "By the fans, for the fans" mentality, and I'd rather keep what I do in that same vein. I don't want to be a worker-for-hire, I just want to bring manga I enjoy by people I respect to a wider audience. I don't want to go on about buying licensed stuff and that sort of stuff, I just want to make manga accessible to fans. Yes, there are ungrateful, entitled faggots, but there are also grateful people who enjoy reading the manga and it's those who I bother putting in the effort for.

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>>113322961
Adding to this, it's actually more obvious at the higher resolution than at say this resolution that the tones look like shit. You can still kind of tell that it was leveled and burned as hell but it's not as obvious as when you can see the individual tones.

I wanna kinda go off tangent from what >>113323720 said, but to those who have their own site/blog, what do you think of adding a little donation box?

Not the kind that says, "WE NEED X AMOUNT OF $$$ TO KEEP THE SITE RUNNING GIB MONI PLS," but just something that's there for people who want to throw a dollar the scanlator's way? I kinda want to add one to mine, but there's some moral ambiguity to it that makes me question doing that.

>>113324207
Just make "we need this much to order a volume of that manga," don't be a faggot.

>>113294021
http://www.insidescanlation.com/etc/How-to-edit-manga-with-Photoshop/rawr/editguide/1.html

>>113324346
A lot of those are dead.

>>113324207
I don't bother because my hosting's cheap enough, I have enough money to blow, and I'm not going to put myself in a position to be beholden to donators.

>>113324207
As my post (>>113323720) indicates, you would imagine I'd have a hard time justifying a donation system, but I suppose if you work hard on it and feel like you could do with a sign of appreciation from the fans to get motivated, then I suppose it's okay. If it were me, though, I'd close donations once they reach a certain point (I don't mean to say you'd specify an exact amount required on the site, just when you feel you've received enough), say $100. That said, you'll probably get $20 max unless you say you need it to run the site or for raws or something, so do what you like.

>>113324207
Just put up a small one like "if you want to help us buy raws you can donate", do be wary that if you do this people might start expecting more from you because they donated though.

>>113300255
Thanks for sharing this.

>>113324797
It was actually available for a long time. You just need to search for paid fonts once in a while.

So CC astrocity is shit.
What's a good font for basic bubbles?

>>113325077
Depends on what sort of manga. Wild Words is good to have as a backup, but otherwise just check font guides and see what sort of font fits what you're doing. For example, I was working on something with a style that reminded me of some American comics recently, and for that I used CC Jim Lee. When I'm doing SoL stuff, I usually use fonts that have a lowercase as well because it usually fits the mood better.

>>113325077
Astro City is nice for more serious shit.

I've been into CCJoeKubert lately.

>>113325350
>Astro City is nice for more serious shit.
I really don't get what you mean by this, the only good use I've seen for it is certain boxes.

>>113325658
It looks really cold and serious to me, so I use it a lot for introspection.

Ripping Afternoon 2014-10, will have it up soon.

>>113325900
the digital one?

>>113325900
Oh, finally. Proper v2 of last Sidonia chapter today then.

>>113326303

http://www.mediafire.com/download/1bs8izfmn2l8oey

Rest of the mag in a bit.

You think anyone would be interested in the GirlFriend BETA raws that started last month in Maoh?

>>113326533
Oh, thank you. I saw that thetsuuyaku released new Nickelodeon chapter. How many left if we count upcoming last issue? 2?

>>113326619

I don't know what that is, but no one will ever be interested if there aren't raws to look at. Post anyway.

>>113326671

Next chapter is the final chapter. Full color.

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>>113326703
It's a manga based off the Smartphone game. It's also getting an anime.

>>113323156
I've never received a single mail or message on IRC about the MM leveling.
If you want the raw for this and show me what it should look like, go ahead and send me a mail.
[email protected]

And
>>113323167
is not me by the way.

>>113327247
Why not just post the raw here?

>>113327264
Because it's 5MB

>>113326533

The Japanese pub rip of the digital raw got shrunk down to around 185 mb (and slightly smaller, 1063 x 1539, maybe completely reencoded to jpg x%?), but I see that the ebook is listed at 600 some mb. I also saw that the pngs of the rip are in RGB rather than grayscale. Are they actually preserving those pages in the ebook format as RGB or is this something that happens with the ripping application and saving of the file? Just curious cause it seems like there's really no standard any of these publishers are adopting for digital release

>>113327319

Just put it on pomf.

>>113327319
Then put it on pomf.se

>>113327344

I'm not sure. I can test it with another ripper (BookLiveImageExtractor).

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>>113327344
>>113327419

>>113327351
>>113327366
puush/boEnj.png
Put a dot between the puu and sh.
I'll be checking this thread/the archives tomorrow, because I need some sleep.
If you want, just send a mail with the results or try to contact me on IRC #monstermusume or #prettyanon @rizon

>>113327498

If it's not the program that's extracting it and saving it as RGB png and the publishers are actually choosing to distribute it as RGB png vs Grayscale, I wonder what the Kodansha digital release guys are doing. Usually those guys care so much about keeping filesize down for mobile device ebooks... If they had these files as grayscale they could cut the file size by half for most of the images while losing none of the b/w. Or you could just use the extra space you'd save and boost the resolution (yes please.) The young animal digital releases are scaled to 1428 x 2000 with is pretty nice, but then you're reading young animal...

Has anyone ever had this problem where you install Topaz and you see it in the plugins folder and Photoshop sees it because it lists it, but it's all greyed out and it won't let you select anything to put in your product keys?

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>>113327603
Yes, I realize it's more than twice the size but the tones have better aliasing and the white spots on blacks and other such imperfections should be fixed manually. That was my main issue, how the leveling and burning ruined some of the tones.

I'm going to laugh my ass off if someone says it looks the fucking same.

>>113328190
Topaz only works on "color" images, go to Images -> Image Mode -> set RGB
That should allow you to use it even if the page is gray.

>>113327498

Continued...

Or maybe this is a difference in the ebooksjapan version vs other online retailers. I see that amazon's kindle version is like 170 some mb which matches up to the size of the jp pub raw release. I wouldn't be surprised if the resolutions/format matched up.

Sorta weird to see so much variation in the image by online digital distributor rather than based on publisher standard.

>>113328347

Yeah, for some reason quality variation affects both English and Japanese digital distribution. Viz is an easy example of that.

>>113328298
Well I definitely see the difference but as a cleaner I always see that shit. To the average reader, there is almost no difference between those two images.

>>113328406
>Viz is an easy example of that
Explain further.

>>113328476

Their Amazon rips and Viz store rips are worlds apart. Amazon is better for some reason.

>>113316662
If all they wanted was bring manga to the readers, they wouldn't care about credits and shit. I'm a translator myself and I'm almost happy about online readers because most people read manga on them. When the manga I translated is on online readers, it gets read by a lot more people than when I release it on some obscure website.

I want to get into scanalation, doushio?

>>113328411

As a pleb reader with no cleaning skills, I can hardly see the difference unless someone points it out.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/90617

I can see a few things that seem to look better.

>>113328556
Kill yourself, we don't need anyone with access to that trip.

>>113328565
The primary thing is that a lot of times when you have gradient tones like that and you use a filter to remove the noise, it thinks the fainter parts of the gradient are just noise and removes them. It's very noticeable at least to me on the top part of that image. Instead of the faintest part of the gradient, it's just black.

>>113328654
There's also the other tones in the gray areas where in the anon's version they're round whereas the release one they're more jagged and sharper.

>>113328654
Going back and forth between the two, one is a lot sharper and creates this yellow light effect between the white on black screentones to the sides.

>>113328565

Yeah, the tones got completely messed up in some areas. It's also not really a great idea to use as a point of reference whether or not you can see a difference. Most people aren't going to be comparing, so it's more important to preserve image accuracy.

>>113328716
Yeah I see that now too and a couple other things thanks to the screenshot comparison posted. Personally I have no idea how to avoid doing that without just avoiding filters entirely and trying to do everything manually. If it were me I would just hate myself for "ruining" them and send it off to the editor anyway. The thing is though, we're usually the only people who actually care. Readers just want the new chapter ASAP.

>>113328503
>not the other way around
What the fuck. I wonder where JoJo was ripped from. Part 3 is fucking 5GB and saved in JPG.

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I'm just working on Inari right now.

And all of my focus is on it.

All of it.

>>113329221
Godspeed anon, I'm looking forward to that.

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>>113306898
You can try jdownloader, it's works with MangaStream too.
Link http://jdownloader.org/

>>113327802
It's because the source images are jigsaw'd. There's no choice but to redraw them as png, lest you want to lose any quality. There are ways to rearrange the jpeg losslessly, but they're not very convenient and are entirely dependent on how they were constructed. You also can't tell the difference between a grayscale image and a colored one from just the original jpeg.

>>113328503
Kobo is arguably better. Joins are better on Viz, so apparently that's priority for some people.

>>113328961
Probably Amazon or Kobo.

>>113328556
Why don't you niggers start properly ripping manga? I'm sick of reading shitty rips of mangapanda.

Is there a huge Japanese onomatopoeia wiki/library hidden somewhere?
I think SFX notes with non-localized sound effects doesn't really help my scanlation.

>>113329665
Are you talking about CR or what?

>>113329656
I should add. It's quite possible that there are images that are not jigsaw'd somewhere and that those are usually accessed by mobile devices. CMX for instance implements a piss-poor scheme where I can change one parameter in the URL and I can get not non-jigsaw'd image with HD res in fact. Something I can't normally achieve on desktop.

>>113329221
>handholding
Hurry up Nase.

>>113329762
http://thejadednetwork.com/sfx/

>>113329221
So release next month, right?

>>113330398
You're my hero.

Made a promise to myself that I'd do all the untranslated Hroz doujins on ex. And now my typesetter is bailing so I guess I'm picking up that side of it too. Still they don't take very long so it should be easy enough.

>>113328556
Has all CR's stuff been properly ripped yet?

I've put Fort of Apocalypse on permanent hiatus because I could find rips for all the middle chapters on CR

>>113330661
Not by HS. If you're looking for a specific series, I have most of it on my own computer. I can go and upload it somewhere usually. And an automated ripping scheme.

>>113329612
Be careful when you're trying to install this thing if anyone goes that route. There's a bunch of spyware shit in the installer that can really be a bitch to remove and there used to be a bug that would still install it even if you told it not to. Go with the regular javascript without installer option at the bottom of the page to avoid potentially spending a couple hours trying to reomve shit like I did. ;_; Very handy program though.

>>113330810

Both would be nice. You should just dump it in a Mega folder or something.

>>113330810
The previous chapters of Toride are on the FTP as well.

>>113330810
Please upload Kawaisou.

>>113330908
It goes to the FTP, sorting folder. I don't have a clue how the uploading APIs work.

>>113330943
I'd need another pass for that. Newer chapters should be auto-uploaded though.

>>113330965
>>113330920
Oh yea the FTP, I somehow totally forgot this existed.

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>>113330412
That stings. Translation and cleans were done the day the raws came, so I'm just doing other things now.

>>113330286
I really want to hurry up. And the first page is just the tip of the iceberg.

>>113331793
Have you ever considered making a cleaning tutorial? I've never quite been able to figure out how you and some others clean manga so well with topaz despite so much experimenting. There's always something completely off.

>>113329762
https://www.tusfiles.net/xdhu12gkcrh1
https://www.tusfiles.net/9lmj1l07tgyk

>>113331075
Found one. I was wondering why you wanted it, and right, there are chapters missing in the middle.

Monthly Afternoon 2014-10 and YM3rd September 2014 going on the FTP.

>>113330810
Sun-Ken Rock ch138 onward.

>>113333042
I'll put 138-143 in the actual Sunken-Rock folder. The rest are currently where the rest of the rips are.

Does Monthly Comic Blade (????????) have an ebook version?

>>113333259
Thanks anon.

>>113333582
It does now. The print magazine was canceled and all the series moved to its website.

>>113333725

Can that also be bought on ebookjapan, etc. or do I have to use some Android emulator?

>>113333780
Just go to the site. It's free.

>>113333815

Cool. For example, how do I access 2-44, then?

http://comic.mag-garden.co.jp/812/833.html