Scanlation thread. What are you working on?

I started to translate an old Pokemon Doujinshi, but it was too hard so I gave up.
There is no way I could translate, redraw, etc. a whole manga on my own, which was the whole reason I started learning Japanese in the first place.

>>155900506
Why the fuck not bitch? I've done it before, it's not a big deal.

>>155900506

That's why you find someone to work with instead of doing it all on your own.

[CLEANING]

http://coe.utah.edu/~christom/
http://forums.sensescans.com/index.php?topic=2814.0
http://www.ruinevil.com/rawr/editguide/1.html

[REDRAWING]

https://mangahelpers.com/forum/threads/advanced-redrawing-methodes.2993177/

[TYPESETTING]

http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/anonblacks-typesetting-guide/
http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/
http://sensescans.com/index.php?topic=3260.0
http://www.ruinevil.com/rawr/editguide/2.html

Has anyone fixed EBJ script yet? I broke some time this week after an update.

>>155900506
As the others have said, find someone to work with. Redrawing is possibly the most taxing thing someone can do relative to scanlation. Find a redrawer/cleaner, and kill 80% of your work. You can still patch up their work if you don't completely like the results; but you won't have to do all kinds of bullshit anymore.

Are the Rakuten coupons kill forever? Wasn't there another coupon that could be used by regular members that went up from time to time?

>>155901107

Looks like it.

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>>155900787
I might look into fixing it again, I have an issue of Rex coming up and it looks like ass on Rakuten for some reason. Not any time in the next two weeks though.
>>155901107
I haven't looked really recently, but I'm pretty sure coupons are 100% dead.

Still looking for a cleaner for this by the way.
#teammoe on Rizon, or just send me an email or whatever.

Ureshon when?

Is anon who did Sunoharasou no Kanrinin-san
https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/147689647/
still here? Will you (or someone else) ever continue it?

>>155903043

Hopefully it can be fixed, I also have some issues coming up in the next couple weeks to rip.

>>155903043

What's that about?

Anyone have a pastebin/guide on how to rip from EbookJapan? I heard their raws are really good, so I want to see if I can try using those instead of ordering from Japan.

>>155906021

EBJ broke everything again, have to wait for whichever anon decides to take up the task of fixing the script.

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>>155905294
Street racing, touge and wangan. Some rallying. It's mainly about a middle aged guy who rediscovers an old Group B Starion belonging to his boss that he never got to race since Group B got canned before it could run. He fixes it up and takes it out on the streets. It's bit of a twist on the usual coming of age story, this time it's an older guy coming to terms with his own age.

It's all car stuff basically.

Anyone is doing the new sunday series?

>>155900506

Which one?

Tell me some manga to translate. Preferably something with raws available. Dropped series are fine too.

>>155908840
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=46484

>>155908840
>https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=46484

>>155908840
http://www.mangahere.co/manga/the_mermaid_princess_s_guilty_meal/
This has been dropped recently. I'd really like to see more of it, but I'm helping with a series called Tomogui.

>>155908840

What a generic request that will surely be followed through.

>>155910413
I'm taking a look at the requests being posted. I'm just looking for something that interests me and that I can also translate.

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I released this loli porn last night
https://exhentai.org/g/1051374/404897839d/

For the first time I tried stretching the dialogue font up to 115% vertically and shrinking it down to 95% horizontally, that way it takes up more space in the bubbles, without deforming the font too much.

Maybe it's an autistic thing to care about, but I think it looks nice.

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>>155908840
What genre?

https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=62295
It's hilarious. Only 3 volumes.
https://rbfi.io/dl.php?key=/mFPQ/Kyoaku1.rar

I have upscaled raws(Waifu2x), but they'll take time to upload.

>>155908840
here's some suggestions

https://myanimelist.net/manga/104241/Mairimashita_Iruma-kun/
or

https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=89124

or

https://myanimelist.net/manga/94819/Avarth

>>155908840
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=16454

Nurse-witch Komugi, the manga. Two volumes long and finished.

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Where has everyone been recently? These threads have reached a whole new level of dead.

>>155910602
>loli porn
Literal degenerate-tier.

>>155910711
I particularly enjoy urban settings with a slight touch of fantasy, kind of like D-crackers. I also have a penchant for unusual sci-fi settings mixed with fantasy similar to Jintai. I don't want any LN adaptations though.

>>155911012
it allway been dead,just you don't notice.

>>155911012
People in these threads have become even more jaded, recently, I think. Plus, there has been much idiotic bullshit that was never deleted in certain previous threads; that scared even myself off for a while. The board needs faster/stricter moderation, in general.

Do you guys clean and typeset at the same time? My translator keeps telling me to clean first to give him motivation to translate but I hate having to work on the same page twice.

>>155900775
Stop turning it into a general. Kill yourself.

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>>155912099
That's stupid. Cleaning and then typesetting works out much faster as you don't have to stop every two seconds to clean/redraw a bubble.

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>>155911319
Having fun in urban setting:
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=68483

unusual fantasy+sci-fi settings:
Probably works of this guy, pref. Kosmos Rakuenki. Exceptionally comfy.
https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=314

And who knows, maybe even this:
http://www.to-ti.in/product/?id=37

Have raws for all of these.

>>155912992
That's what I do, I clean the page then typeset it.

>>155908840
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=104615

Do groups usually respond quickly if you apply to them? I would not mind doing typesetting or trying redrawing but I just haven't reached out to any scanlators yet.

>>155900673
Well I'm still pretty new so I didn't get that far.
>>155900774
Probably will in the future.
>>155907697
https://exhentai.org/g/595818/2c6654569c/

Would it be wrong to take a manga scanlation group's terrible uploads and redo the typesetting and cleaning myself with their translation?

>>155914693
No, but the first 4 chapters have absolutely garbage scans. You're better off taking the ones from nyaa and cleaning those. As for the translation, I don't know if it's worth it.

>>155912099
Depending on how many sfx there are, I typeset dialogue first on all the pages, then typeset all the sfx so I don't have to keep switching from one font to the other every page. I feel it saves me some time.

>>155912099
I first clean a single page, then typeset it like this anon does >>155914742

>>155914742
Fuck sfx, I'm terrible at trying to make them creative I hate how shitty they end up looking.

Someone please translate Karakuri Circus.

>>155910602
When are you gonna try handdrawn sfx?

>>155914693

Nothing stopping you, though if you're that committed I'd just offer to help the group so that you can avoid having to redo everything in the future.

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Vanilla Spider needs a TL, the one who signed up only did a couple chapters before disappearing. The first volume's almost done, just redoing the existing chapters with tank scans since the previous group outright skipped some bubbles and was fairly liberal in their translation.

>>155914693
>>155914738
Wait, shit. I thought I was in the mia thread. Stjill, no there's nothing wrong with that, but maybe it's worth it to ask them for the PSDs and stuff like that.

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I did like 10 pages of Maid in Japan, but I'm not satisfied with how I removed the noise. I should have burned it manually, but I instead used more leveling on already leveled pages. Gotta redo that I guess.

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I finished translating this Iori doujin, but I'm not super confident about the translation:
https://exhentai.org/g/1019020/6516e84be3/

If you think you're badass enough to finish it, here's the source files (because it'll rot on my harddrive otherwise):
https://mega.nz/#F!UZsXCQbS!9mxGpwSDKAvVKT-tXoCL5A


>>155900506
>>155913729
>There is no way I could translate, redraw, etc. a whole manga on my own
>8 pages
wew

>>155906544
Do Shakotan Boogie next please thanks.

>>155914909
I'd have to get a drawing tablet or something and while I'm sure the results would look much better, I'm not convinced it's really worth the expense

I wish I could find someone to edit stuff for me, I could translate and they could edit, I've joined groups before but it takes literally multiple months for a single chapter and then they just disband. There's only enthusiasm for a few days when the group starts, that stretches out over a few months of not really caring anymore before everyone just leaves.

>>155916441
Cleaning bubbles and typesetting is a skill you acquire in... 3 hours? Then there's redrawing, which you can bullshit with the clone stamp tool and the healing brush tool.

>>155916501
I know how to clean I just don't like doing it, I wish I had a partner.

>>155916425
I'm sure you can find cheap ones on the internet.

>>155915560
>the hospitable heart
>not a hospitable heart
Did you people even proofread this?

>>155915102
TLs just apparently drop out of the sky these days.

Do you guys know of any shaky font for main body?

>>155915600
That looks like shit

>>155916898
http://www.dafont.com/komika-boo.font

>>155917038
then fix it :^)

>>155916441
What are you translating?

>>155916619
>you people
It's just me.

>>155900239
Nothing because I only consume and do not contribute

>>155917862
Nothing in particular just random doujin's when I feel like it because I hate doing editing to be consistent for a series. I would definitely want to do a series if I didn't have to edit and the editor actually put in time, but most people do like an hour every other day at most, and maybe an hour a month at least. Realistically I would love to do a chapter a day.

>>155918010
A chapter a day is a tough task, unless the manga is very interesting. I usually typeset 1 hour a day too, but I'd love to find something interesting.

You can't even typeset an entire chapter in an hour?

>>155918667
>typeset 40 pages in one hour with redraws to do in most of the pages
who can

>>155918843
You just said typeset so I didn't know what you were referring to.

>>155918667
Usually takes me 3 hours or so.

>>155918876
Oh, it's not the same anon.

Would anyone translate or transcribe this please
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5054853577

>>155919007
>transcribe

Found the Google translate fag.

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>>155916574
Yes, amazon sells some cheap Huion model for about $40, but I'm still kind of on the fence about it. It's not really going to do anything that can't be done with the usual fonts.

I'm not ruling it out anyway, if anything it could save me some valuable time when typesetting.

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>>155919997
I think it adds a personal unique effect to the edits but I guess it also takes time to get used to it.

On another note, you weren't planning to finish the Mamezou tank right?

Even if you had some help?

>>155920266
Nope sorry, I was interested in it because of the god tier loli+anal combination, but iirc the rest of the stories in that tank weren't loli

>>155919997
Mind giving source my good man?

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>>155920465
You are a man with fine taste, I think some of them weren't but the rest would count because the body type is small enough.

I'm fine as long as it's cute anal tho

>>155920746
It's something I'm still editing. Second story in this raw https://exhentai.org/g/979246/4f79509bb2/
hopefully done with it by next week.

>>155920942
It's a shame that the anal-story of the loli sister in that mogg arc story didn't get translated.

>>155920942
Alright, thanks.
I will be waiting patiently

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This manga is supposedly serialized on same website as that Daiz-Monk-Saitama smut that recently got anime

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>>155900239

>translating takes me 20 mins
>redrawing/cleaning takes me 8 hours
I hate everything.

>>155921770
Same. And what I translate is either old or obscure so there's hardly even any fans after it's been translated too, so no one's rushing to help.

I realized I'm just going to selfishly write scripts and keep them to myself as I build up my speed, and then dump volumes at a time. In the meantime, hope fans actually read my credits page and are willing to offer help.

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To the guy translating porn here, do you get paid or is it for personal interest?

>>155917932
It was a figure of speech, nimrod.

>>155922201
What the fuck, you can get paid for translating porn? I've been doing it for free this whole time.

>>155921647
I thought this was just going to be a one shot or was.

>>155922057
What manga do you do? Have contact details?

What does grayscale-alpha mean?

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>>155922258
You can even join the jews if your are good enough.

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>>155921647
Looks interesting, I'll read it later.
By the way, this IS a girl, isn't it?

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>>155922201
For free, don't want to feel obligated to do something I enjoy doing on my free time.

>>155922258
People do commissions and stuff. Tbh I find it a bit morally questionable if the original artist doesn't see a cent of it.

Others go work for Fakku, etc.

I can't decide which one to scan next.
http://imgur.com/25xkhhO

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why is no one translating this in english

>>155922794
>http://imgur.com/25xkhhO
Takagi-san

>>155922835
Why aren't you?

>>155922794
Takagi-san no doubt

>>155922794
Takagi-san, please.

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>>155922641
>moral fag
Who cares about the author? One gets paid to put it in English.

>free
I get it for a few things, but not always as you're selling yourself short.

>>155922258
Yeah. People do. But doing it for free means people won't give you a dime because they know you'll do it regardless. However, a lot of people who get paid do really trashy work and rewrite all the dialogue, but people don't care as long as it's "in English".

>>155922481
Honest pay for honest work doesn't make one a Jew.

>>155922641
What do you find enjoyable about scanlating?

>>155922884
>>155922929
>>155922937
B-but Takagi-san is pure!

>>155923081
The part I enjoy the most is definitely translating, more than the whole scanlating process.
Making stuff I enjoy available to others. I'd expect that to be the case for many scanlators.

Autistically fitting text into bubbles and seeing the end result feels ok too.

>>155923081
It's called epeen.

>>155922922
no idea where the raws are

>>155923081
Getting paid.

>>155923449
Then I must be the only one that struggles when choosing fonts.

>>155920942
Isn't it discoraging knowing that since it's wani fakku is going to translate that at some point?

>>155919979
Makes it easier to trick /int/ into doing it.

>>155924365
It's ok anon, I have that difficulty too. I spend a few hours putting together a custom font guide for different manga when readers would be perfectly fine with Wild Words.

>>155922350
Irregular Serialization.

>>155922548
It's a dude lol.

>>155925127
How would that even work?
You'd just feed them individual sentences for weeks until you get the whole thing translated? (Not to mention /int/djt/ is getting deader and deader and /jp/djt/ will just shoo you away)

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Do we have an automated shonenjumpplus ripper or must I continue to do it manually?

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Is anyone picking up manga about scientist who makes female clone of himself to be his wife?

>>155926556
manual as far as I know

>>155926301
By simply posting a page or two with the transcribed text in /int/japanese. /djt/ is for fags.

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>>155924627
They definitely will but I don't mind. At least my version won't use wild words

It'll get "expunged" from the panda at that point though, I guess. I still don't fully understand how that system works.

>>155927982
Too bad.

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>>155928799
>At least my version won't use wild words
You got me there.

>>155928799
>At least my version won't use wild words
>that image
Your font is terrible and so is the grammatical layout.
>Aaah!
>Very nice!
>What a cute face!!11
Also your text is off center.

>>155928799
>At least my version won't use wild words
I sure hope that picture you've posted is not supposed to be a font that's better than ww according to you.

>>155926928
Ｐｏｓｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｆｉｒｓｔ　ｃｈａｐｔｅｒ

>>155913120
My group responds pretty quickly to requests like that. Less than a day for sure.
>>155915560
Are you guys taking help for this series? I might help you guys after I'm finished with another ecchi series that I'm doing, although that won't be for a while.

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My proofreader hasn't touched the script after like two weeks while everything else is done.
Should I say something? I don't know.

>>155932047
>Are you guys taking help for this series?
Sure, leave a message on ak-scans.wikia if feel like it.

>>155933214
Ok, cool. But I'll do it after I finish up that weird golfing manga. Reminds me, I need to get on typesetting the next chapter.

>>155921647
Have you gotten around to doing the next chapter of Mujina yet?

>>155933141
Tell them they are off the team if they slack. Is a proofreader really such an inexpensive post that they can't be replaced?

>>155933141
>proofreader
LOL that's not even a real job

>>155900506
I could help you anon, I'm new too but I'll do my best.
I did this the other day https://exhentai.org/g/1049507/baf0b4b605/

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This one.

>>155934291
It is, in two conditions. They can either serve as a massive quality control for translators with imperfect or non-native English skills, or they can be another translator who checks to make sure that the original translator did not make any mistakes.

The first one is necessary in many cases, and the second can be very useful for high-quality, large-scale scanlation projects/groups.

>>155934391
Gonna try to finish the cleaning for chap 4-5 by Sunday, man.

>>155934179
I don't have any other ones at least.
Besides they have a fancy degree and know a bunch of other languages so I know they're good. My last proofreader was bad at japanese and changed things that weren't wrong. I don't want to lose them.

>>155921647
>>155926001
>Irregular Serialization.
And it looks like he's doing more Skyhigh, too, so now he has two biweeklies, a monthly, and an irregular? This is nuts.

>>155934513
The I pray for you.

How does it feel to know that scanlators are the hardest working bunch in the weeb fandom? You do it for free and subbing anime just don't even compare in the amount of time required and needed skillsets. Scanlators are the unsung heroes.

>>155935028
It's hard for me to feel proud whenI know I'm really slow at every part of the process, and someone else could release at twice my pace.

Hox, where are you? Hox! I summon you!

>>155936232
The reason you're not making mad dosh like >>155922481 says is because you undersell yourself like that.

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>>155936629
I make enough at my dayjob, I just suck dick at scanlating.

Is this done with photoshop? WWW
https://youtu.be/Cn_8n7Icfv0

>>155934497

>>155928799
>using a lowercase font in all caps
what did he mean by this

I just want to typeset some ecchi manga.
Doujins are fine too, just give me something to do.

>>155938689
>using lowercase font

>>155939782
>using font

>>155934369
Nice work, and thank you for the offer, But I may join a translation group from Wizchan and work with them.

>>155939903
I hand-write my translations, and I physically trace and redraw the entire page for every page with a pencil.

>>155940223
I reinterpret the story and draw it using my own style and my own paneling.

>>155940223
I adapt manga into live action where I play all of the characters, speaking in Japanese, and then I sub it in English.

>>155940333
>Gene Simmons' son

>>155940562
I had completely forgotten about that.

Where do you guys even get uncleaned raws? I was looking for raws to practice cleaning a while back, and all I could find were raws that had already been cleaned.

>>155942250
Literally everywhere. Lurk more.

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Any place that has raws of Maken-Ki Full Color Selection without the annoying watermarks in the bottom?

>>155942352
this

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Is there a way to remove these artifacts without messing with the gray tones? I remember one anon said before to use topaz denoise, but I guess I'm too retarded to use it, because it's not working.
Also, planning to pick this up if I manage to convince an anon to check the translation for me.

>>155944432
>764x1200
>jpg
Don't bother. Even if it takes 1 millisecond to remove the artifacts, that's 1 millisecond wasted. Just clean the text, redraw if needed and typeset.
Use save for web and either save as PNG-8 with whatever color palete you think is good enough or JPG at max quality, whatever takes the less space.

>>155944432
waifu2x

>>155944599
I see. Thanks, senpai.
I'm planning on getting the printed books, but not now, and I'm sure that the people that's going to read it won't care too much if it's digital.

>>155944883
Fuck off.

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>>155945000
I looks fine senpai.

>>155946202
No it doesn't.

>>155946222
Well okay anon. Either way the original poster can see it's the same shit.

>>155946202
Almost...
Now just upscale it to twice the size using waifu2x then downscale and it should look great

>>155946202
It doesn't look like the worst thing I ever saw.

So who has a scanning machine and doesn't have any active projects right now or doesn't mind another one?

>>155948593
https://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=53951

>>155923081
Tbh I like contributing to scanlation because I enjoy helping people read good stuff

>>155938783
Depends what kind of ecchi you want

>>155935028
As long as someone is fapping to my stuff, I'm glad.

I'm a decent cleaner and typesetter, does anyone have a completed series they're working on that needs it? I'm a little slow so I don't think I'd be good for anything ongoing, or anything with crazy redraws.

>>155951656
Just join a translation group

>>155950813
Whatever kind honestly

>>155951822
I just like to help out when I can really.

>>155951914
Depends. Is there any kind of manga you prefer to work on?

>>155951822
Lemme have a check.

>>155952151
Second reply meant for >>155951823

>>155952151
I'm not really particular, just something that doesn't have extensive redraws, since I have no tablet and even if I did I'm no artist.

>>155952730
I think you need to learn how to redraw.

How do I decrease a file's size?
A single image is like 6 MB and I don't understand why.

>>155953108
Instead of Save As..., choose Save For Web.

>>155953108
Photoshop?

File > Export > Save for Web
PNG-8
Adaptive, Colors 17
Diffusion, DIther 100%
No Transparency, No Interlaced

Also, you better be working in grayscale.

>>155953006
I do decent enough if I have a pattern to work with or line to follow, but again I'm no artist. I'm just slow with it sometimes is all.

How long does it usually take for Batoto to approve a new chapter?
I'm debating whether to apply for contributor status or not, I don't really want to interact with anyone in batoto.

>>155953359
Anywhere from 1 hour to 26, in my experience. It all depends on when someone bothers to check, really.
Applying for contributor status is literally just making a forum post (and waiting for 6 months), is that really too much interaction for you?

>>155953401
>is that really too much interaction for you?
Not him but yes.

>>155953401
Just one post? I guess that's not too much.

>>155952730
So anything with mostly bubbles? And I'm guessing you're not the ecchi guy

>>155953178
>>155953198
Thanks bros

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>>155953586
Not necessarily, I just can't do extensive redraws of detailed art.

Should I upscale an image to typeset and scale it back to original size when finished? Those stupid artists keep uploading their stuff to twitter in low res and full of artifacts.

>>155953198
Why 17 colors?

>>155954208
>The 17 color tradition, though flawed in its original reasoning (ookla's legacy, lol), works pretty well for most pages. Generally 15-20 is what you want for most pages, and theoretically there should be a stepwise drop in filesize from 17 to 16 colors beyond pure palette reduction, but in practice this difference is negligible (with 16 colors and appropriate processing, you can go down to a 4bit png instead of an 8bit, but there smaller filesize with 16 colors is almost completely due to the loss of the extra color, as opposed to going from 8 to 4bits). Feel free to use fewer or more colors as needed, or use other color reduction algorithms.
http://www.insidescanlation.com/etc/How-to-edit-manga-with-Photoshop/rawr/editguide/3.html

Because I'm a lemming.

>>155952191
Just tell me if you find something, I'm not the best at redraws but I can always try.

>>155953867
Alright then. Anything or restricted to completed?

>>155954472
I'll let you know. Coming up with a shortlist now

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>>155951656
Check >>155903043
If you're the car kind of guy. It's been completed since 2003 or so, there's a guy willing to do the shit redraws like page stitches, and the first volume is scanned and translated.

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>>155908840
Plz?

>>155928799
You need to stop. You are everything that is wrong with scanlation.

>>155954988
I say I prefer completed really because I can be a bit slow on occasion and dislike the pressure of having to complete chapters as they release. But I'm fine with something ongoing if that's known ahead of time

>>155900239
Who's dick do I have to suck so Ishoujo+ can get scanned?

Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa is down our redrawer, so unless we find a replacement, we're gonna be LQ from here on out. I wish this wasn't the case, but the well-being of my staff is more important.

If anyone is interested in stepping in, let me know.

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>>155926556
How do you unscramble shit?

Any news about ebj script?

>>155956063
>but the well-being of my staff is more important.
>This coming from Tarage
My sides.

>>155955835
Go ask >>155954472

>>155934291
>LOL, that's not even a real job.
Oh, but it is.

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Slowly working on this. Need a translator for Chapter 3 and onwards or it's dropped.

>>155957343
Not to the sort of "human" that starts a sentence with LOL.

>>155957192
I would need a translator though

>>155957853
Up to you. Can you handle that?

>>155955612
Wanna try some Dowman Seiman?

>>155957853
>>155958447
Well, lemme know if you're interested. I'm gonna head to bed soon.

>>155959503
Well, yeah. I wanna typeset Ishoujo+
Can you translate or know anyone who wants to?

>>155959743
I can sure. I'll try to set up a folder when I get up tomorrow. You know anyway we can communicate or something?

>>155959503
Question also hits to >>155955612 if you're up for douman seiman

>>155958447
Elem, you fucking suck at replying on batoto

>>155959977
You can contact me on batoto
http://bato.to/forums/user/16586-saychainsaw/

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An open letter to a/the typesetter:

Why do you do this? What could possibly possess you to do this? You think this is funny? Is this how you get your sick kicks?

>>155960064
Not Elem, but I do touch base with him a lot

>>155960614

You'd have to ask Dumbnut about that, I'm not sure if the TS browses /a/.

>>155960653
I've repeatedly messaged him about Habanero's Blame rescan project, and he's never gotten back to me on it. He replied once, very briefly, ~11 months ago, when I asked if they were even still doing the project.

Can you ask him what the deal is with that specific project? Are they out a translator? Or is it somehow taking them more than a year per chapter for editing? As I was told that they were editing chapter 2, about a year ago. I can help with one circumstance, but not the other.

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>>155956389
https://pastebin.com/d6FHuWbN
Valid for some 24 hours since I really am starting to suspect these japs are watching.
Haven't bothered with any of the cropping or automation bits, might do that later when I actually do need it again. Only works on FF with GreaseMonkey, and I changed up the thing to rip using arrow keys because I'm asshole that's why.

If you want to make your life really easy, bully the reader into going in single page mode, then use a simple set of actions like pic related in PS to crop your shit right up automatically.

>>155960718
I'll ask him when I get up. You have any creds?

>>155960718
Would this project even matter anymore?
Danke has been ripping the new editions in English, I personally wouldn't bother.

>>155960994
Yes, but I'd rather not post them here. If your intent is for him to know who I am, just say that I'm the "one." If he searches his messages, he'll be able to figure that out.

>>155960928

Thanks. Though all of the other Pastebins were only valid for an hour or two, so I don't think they're watching. I don't see any fags reposting it on JCafe either. I think they're more concerned with the Chinese zergs ripping their stuff.

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>>155961027
>Danke has been ripping the new editions in English
He has? Fucker. I'm fairly sure he's only been posting them on /tv/, and not here - I would notice, surely.

Regardless, I know that the English has mistranslations and redraws which I do not care for. I was looking forward to super-HQ versions of the original versions of pages like this. It would be criminal for such a thing to not be made to exist, as I see it.

Why can't cgrascal clean a bubble properly after 1300+ releases?

>>155960928
You are a saint. Thank you.

>>155961186
Nah, he posts on /co/, he ripped the first three volumes of it, it's also on the goddess.

>>155961186
They get posted in thw Win-O threads on /co/, like most comics published in English.

>>155961273
The real question is why he gets paid to scanlate when he's never put any kind of effort into his work.

>>155961307
Err, that's what I meant. It's easy for me to get annoying boards confused, but even that one is hard for me to explain away. Short answer would be that they're both cancer-riddled boards.

At any rate, thank you for the notification that they're around; I shall have to see if they are, indeed, good enough to merit an abandonment of the project. Though, I do doubt it.

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>tfw in bed with a pretty notable nip artist doing their English typesetting
Who else in this thread is winning at the moment?

>>155961640
You're fucking them?

>>155961683
I'm working with them

>>155961640
I bet your work sucks.

>>155961640

That's fairly common actually, especially if you find some nobody to help.

>>155961640
>nip

That's racist.

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>>155962175
>>155961817
>>155961728
>All this salt
His stuff is going direct from Comiket to Matsuri for all those neetbucks and it needs to be in English, I'm so hyped.

>>155962757
All I'm saying that by using racial slurs you're not respectful towards someone who trusted you enough to let you work with them. Better hope they don't find out.

>>155962757
>multiple /co/ images
Have fun randomly bolding letters.

>>155962757
>only posting low brow /co/ shit
Yup, confirmed. You're retarded and your work would clearly reflect that and thus be bad.

>>155962834
>randomly bolding letters
kek
it's funny because it's true

nothing wrong with bolding words for emphasis.
you guys sound petty as fuck

>>155964746
No one said anything about bolding words being bad, just bolding random letters.

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>>155964746
>you guys sound petty as fuck
Can you even begin to understand how much effort some people here put into removing conceptual dust and retaining 100% truth in color? "Petty" is not a pejorative here.

>>155965060
I don't think having pride in your work is petty. I just finished working on a doujin, and it happens to be something good by an art I like, so I want the scanlation quality to reflect that.

My list a requirements.
-No dust in the black or whites.
-No detail loss in the screen tones.
-Double/triple check the translation.
-Double/triple check for English typos.
-Make sure all text is centered.
-Redraw all SFXs.
-All pages are equal height and width.
-Covers stitched together.
-Separate fonts for dialog, thought, side text and narration.

I don't expect everyone to put that much effort into things, but like I said, I also see no problem with taking pride in your work.

>>155965436
Tell that to the asswipe here >>155964746

>>155965436
>-All pages are equal height and width.
Why even bother with this?

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>>155965436
>I don't think having pride in your work is petty
Nor do I, but that's not related to the definition of 'petty'. Most people would never notice the specifics of the work you did if you released two versions; one with dust and one without. That's not an attack against its value, but a simple observation. And, you say yourself in your post:
>I don't expect everyone to put that much effort into things
To these ends, I think "petty" is an appropriate word.

>>155965496
Because consistency and symmetry are the keys to beauty.

>>155965558
You posted an image, named it "why", and called it petty. So, that's what I was addressing. Petty has a negative connotation, and making sure what you do is done well is not something negative.

And I don't expect people to put that much effort into it because not everyone has the skill or time required for it.

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Anyone is interested by this oneshot: http://imgur.com/a/4YMk4

>>155965697
>Petty has a negative connotation, and making sure what you do is done well is not something negative.
That's what I said in my original post:
>>155965060
>"Petty" is not a pejorative here.

>>155965773
>here
And this is what implies that you are still attaching a negative connotation to it.

>>155965819
I am not the world; I don't write the definitions.

>>155966250
Exactly and the world has largely used the word petty with negative connotation.

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>>155966250
Context is important.

>(of behavior) characterized by an undue concern for trivial matters, especially in a small-minded or spiteful way.

Internet arguments are the best places to learn the meaning of words.

>>155966312
Then it follows that I am right in saying that
>"Petty" is not a pejorative here.

>>155900239
I want to translate something but not typeset, clean or redraw
where should i upload the script once i'm done?

>>155966581
Pastebin.

>>155966578
The way you're doubling down on refusing to admit you messed up is so petty.

Why is my group not doing anything?

>>155966718
Because you're shitposting on 4chan instead.

>>155966685
I don't understand what it is that I've supposedly messed up. But that doesn't matter. Can we just have a normal scanlation thread?

>>155966751
No, since we're petty people here.

>>155966788
Nice! Thanks for the example sentence!

>>155966751
Fuck you, you don't get to talk about "normal thread" when you were the faggot derailing this shit in the first place. You made the bed, now lie in it.

Can't we just go back to agreeing that Wild Words is the worst font for scanlation?

>>155967179
No. Wild Words is fine. Over-used, entry level font but not terrible.

>>155967179
>worst
No, that's what Manga Temple is for.

>>155967224
I can agree with this.

>>155956219
It's not a direct rip, that was a screen cap.

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>>155967179
Speaking about fonts, how do you recognize one that's good and one that's bad? Give examples.

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So the guys that were doing Sen to Man, are you going to continue? I don't know why people love to drop this adorable SoL.

>>155967289
A good font is clear and easy to read.
Such as, each letter is clearly defined and do not look similar. As well as the characters are spread out and not too cluttered.

A bad font is the opposite of the things I just listed for good.

I'm too lazy to download bad fonts to give examples.

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>>155967289
Pretty much what that other anon said. Also make sure your fonts are not too top heavy or bottom heavy.
If you don't know if the font you've picked is good or bad, then just go with Wild Words (either the all caps version or the lowercase version). You can't possibly fuck up that one.

>>155967454
Why WildWords? Why not Anime Ace?

>>155967644
Not him but I find AA to be a bit too 'broad' to my liking but if you like it, sure. It's not a bad font either.

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>>155967289
>>155967362
Here's some stupid-ass fonts that you probably shouldn't use, unless you have very specific reasons to do so. The first two are more outright bad; the second two have exceptionally few purposes.

>find a translator for one doujin
>offer to do all the rest of the work (cleaning,typing,etc)
>we write each other 3-5 nice letters discussing the job
>I already cleaned all the scans long time ago
>they disappeared and don't respond to emails
Why this keeps happening?

>>155967644
Anime ace's A is too top heavy. Other than that, it's not that bad. Astro city is better in my opinion, but it's wider than WW so keep that in mind if you have narrow bubbles.

>>155967827
I never have worked on a project without having the TL first. That's the most important part of the work.

>>155967923
Yeah well, that would teach me.
Such a disappointment really.

>>155967827
what doujin

>>155968093
Some BL

>>155956219
Look into the .js code and figure out the descrambling algo?

who's scanlating 人形の国?

>>155967272
>>155968756
I've found the ripper already, just asked one group that was working on one of the Jump+ titles.

>>155968818
A company. Moreover, a company that doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.

>>155968983
ugghhhh

i also hear there's an english version of the blame reprint. is the translation of that also terrible?

>>155968818
Kodansha

>>155968983
>a company that doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.
Why?

>>155969158
is there an english title yet, then?

>>155969320
Aposimz

you seem to be under the impression that there aren't any chapters out or something - you are mistaken
first two chapters should be on MK; if they're not, they're in the archive

once you read it, you'll understand why it's cancer

>>155969158

The English translation for Aposimz is pretty poor.

Anyone having problems installing the comic-walker gem?
I followed all instructions, set my paths right and made sure to have all dependencies. SSL certificate file is also set properly.

The install finishes properly, here's the output:
https://pastebin.com/CBccKNwr

Now, when I try to run it I get this:
https://pastebin.com/awag3ZbY

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>>155958447
You replied after I had already gone to sleep, if you want to hit me up I'm at [email protected]

I can't tell from the reply chain if you're the person who posted a batoto account, but yeah I like me some douman seiman, I'd be willing to help out with that.

>>155965436
>Redraw all SFXs

As a reader I despise that. Erasing chunks of art that do not need to be erased is so terrible. It's why I kind of dislike almost any official English releases, they replace good art with generic wavy fonts that say "sploosh!"

Redrawing SFX is only acceptable if you're a genuinely good artist who can recapture the look of the original

>>155965560
Not true, the most beautiful structures in nature as asymmetric.

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Would anyone be interested in checking translation for a baseball manga? It's by the same artist that did Ichigo 100%, and there's more drama than actual baseball, if that matter.
Just send me a message on batoto.
http://bato.to/forums/user/228529-linblue

>>155970231
How about fixing that typesetting first? At least use italics for in head talk and bold & italics for dialogue with impact like that bubble on the left. Sheesh. These are babby steps and you've already failed.

>>155970314
What's wrong with his typesetting? The "just..." is a bit too high, but other than that, its fine.

>>155970016
Just google "symmetric beauty".
There's a reason no one finds your bumpy acne ridden face attractive.

>>155970519
It's because of the acne, not because it's not symmetric.

>>155970423
Did you even read my post? I already said.

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>>155969924
Here are some of example of my drawn SFXs.

>>155970804
That's pretty neat anon.

>>155969751
>[email protected]
Sure, if you have a batoto account I can work with that too

Post your favorite fonts

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>>155971125
I'm not a pleb, I make my own font.

>>155970963
I'll add I don't draw my own SFXs often because it's time consuming.
But if I'm working on something I really like I'll do it.

>>155971253
I wish I had half your talent. All the ones I try end up looking like shit. Seems like this is just not for me.

>>155912099
I mostly use batch actions, so I clean everything first then typeset it once I have everything cleaned.

>>155971125
Blah Blah for normal bubbles and WW lower for skinny bubbles.

>>155921770
>Translators still have the fucking gall to translate a single chapter per month and then drop off after 5 chapters

I've come to despise most translators I've worked with. Fucking lazy shits.

>>155969751
Actually, how do you prefer to communicate?

>>155933488
Lmao not yet. I will soon.

>>155934581
Yeah he's doing a lot. He always posts about how close his deadlines are on Instagram. Oddly enough, I don't know if it's irregular or not as the next chapter is out tomorrow.

>>155972456
He gave you an email address, just send a fucking email.

>>155972601

He's probably some autist who doesn't like revealing his email because he thinks he'll be signed up for gay porn or the government will get him.

>>155972733
You're not wrong man. I do enough series to warrant a copyright arrest.

>>155972935
You do know there is such a thing as making throw away e-mail addresses, right?

>>155972935

Then make a new email account to use? You're just being an inconvenience. Batoto bends over for copyright so they'd hand over your IP if someone was going after you. Take the tinfoil hat off, you're not the only one working on copyright material.

>>155973048
I work at a police dispatch center, and some times I scanlate copy right protected stuff in the office. I have my own room, so no one ever knows what I'm doing anyway.

>>155973048
No it's fine, I have a throwaway address. We can work with that

>>155973189

If you're scanlating at work, then copyright claims are the least of your problems.

>>155968221
Which one faggot?

What are your thoughts on translating a long Japanese title into English? Something like "Kaguya wants to be confessed to"
I can't help but feel guilty thinking about the people who knows the Japanese title but can't search for it because we changed it. But on the other hand, no one would be able to remember the title if we didn't. A long and unrecognizable title will make the manga less visible too.

>>155973505
You're translating a series. The title should probably be the first shit to translate. I don't get this obsession over leaving stuff in moon.

>>155973505
I just use both. People will use whichever is catchier.

>>155973505
English, always. It's way, way easier to remember. Batoto and mangaupdates already have alternate versions of the title, including the originals.

>>155973317
Nah, police unions are stronk.

>>155971066
>>155972456
>>155972601
>>155972935
I just made up an email because I'm away from home. I'll communicate any way you like, just wanted to drop an email so that you'd have a way to contact me.

Any badly translated works (do say why) you'd like to be retranslated correctly?

>>155974750
In that case I choose semaphore signals via google earth. Give me your coordinates.

>>155974937
>Any badly translated works you'd like to be retranslated correctly?
Yes, but none so much I'd prefer translators do them rather than new projects I'm interested in.

>>155970804
Thank you for completely destroying any self confidence I had in my own handdrawn SFX

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>>155974975

>>155975128
Just keep practicing, anon. You can do it.

>>155974750
It's fine. I just suggested other means since we're gonna be communicating a lot. Email's okay

>>155900239
This is the first time I've ever entered one of these threads an anon from /wsr/ said that I should come here to see if someone was interested in to looking translating a particular manga I was asking about there.
But I know /a/ I would like to respectfully ask if request as such are taboo here?

>>155973402
These:
https://e-hentai.org/g/750657/bd67a9b96b/
https://e-hentai.org/g/1010044/cf5f54b7fa/

Why are you so interested? Do you want to volunteer?

>>155975423
Hard work never pays off.

Anyone here ever compared an official release (or even scanlation) to the Japanese raw to see if it's accurate or not? If so, do tell.

>>155975631
Post a link to the raw and maybe someone will be interested enough to do it.

>>155975423
I can't even bubble letter properly, it's pretty bad. I wish there were some sort of guide just for handdrawing SFX because >>155900775 is only for computerized text and redraws.

>>155976083
In sure thousands of Japanese learners have done so while reading Yotsuba or other manga they read while beginners.

>>155974750
I sent you translations and images to your email. Lemme know if you get it.

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>>155976368
>Post a link to the raw and maybe someone will be interested enough to do it.
gotcha ok so this has been on my mind for pretty long time its a pokemon manga called Pokémon Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!.
Its obvious what it is a kid playing actual competitive pokemon.
These are the only raws I've seen on the internet there only 8 chapters I'm sure this is the entire volume.
http://jb2448.info/index.php?/category/1218

>>155976368
>In sure thousands of Japanese learners have done so while reading Yotsuba or other manga they read while beginners.
Oh sorry, I misread.
I did it twice, but I don't really have much to say about it. The first translation was better than mine, the second one was worse.

>>155976368
>I wish there were some sort of guide just for handdrawing SFX
seconding this. especially now that more and more people are doing it apparently.

>>155977747
And what if you have shitty handwritting?

>>155977874
you get better, like you do with everything you're shitty at?

>>155977747
>>155976368
There's no real way to make a guide for drawing SFXs. It's just normal artistic skill.