Scanlation thread

Trying to scan some shit

Any good tutorial to debind scans?

Nothing because in 2 days my efforts will be for naught.

There is giant Kanji that stretch out the globe and covers half of the MC face, how it's supposed I remove it whit out fuck the draw?

>>159207096
*tanks

>>159207096
Melt the glue with your preferred method (hair dryer, iron, hot water bottle, microwave, a car that's been parking in the sun, active volcano) and carefully pull the pages apart. That's all.

>>159207361
At some point the kanji becomes part of the picture, so just put the translation next to it or wherever.

>you want scans of a thing
>you don't want to pay for it
>it's not uploaded
what do

>>159211196
you buy it

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>that one special retard who paste everything, tilt text at random for no reason and saves scans in jpg

>>159211196
You obviously never get it

>>159212387
>Cutting corners when you've got the easiest job in scanlation
Then again, it might just be because the gook no red englado.

Why would I scanlate anything? So that redditors could read it?

>>159213755
4channers too.

How many series are you working on right now? What is the optimal number?

>>159215888
I typeset/redraw a weekly 4koma, clean/redraw a monthly series, and translate an LN (well, I'm supposed to, but I'm busy with not-scanlation shit)
Solo vs group is a huge difference, and different roles make a big difference too. Just number of series is a pretty weak metric.

>>159215854
Not worth it. Actually even you saying
>4channers
kind of gives away where you're from, scum.

>>159217382
I meant to say 4chan users, sorry.

>>159217382
I meant to say "for Nyanners", sorry.

About to start translating a trap manga. Just need to wait for my typesetter to give me the OK.

>>159215888
>implying I'm going to make a commitment to do something every week/month
This is why I like translating doujins/oneshots. I can just do something I like then fuck off and not have to worry about that "You're not going to do the other hundred chapters? You owe us man" crap when I want to drop something (because there's nothing to drop).
Nice trips by the way.

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>>159218867
so when are you going to translate like you promise man? You owe us man

I'm finally getting around to learning Jap so I won't just be a typesetter-only babby anymore.

That and working with translators/teams is a fucking drag.

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>>159211196
Quit being scum. Buy it yourself.

I'm translating a doujin and I'm stuck at some parts because the girl keeps speaking while sucking dick.
I can understand it in moon, but I can't fully pass it to english in a similar way. What's a simple way to convert characters or words so it sounds like she has something on her mouth?

Like, for example, when a character has an obstructed nose, you could use something like:

k, p, t => g, b, d
n => ng/g
m, v/f => b

Or should I just leave it in normal english? I wouldn't like to do that.
I've never sucked a dick so I don't know how it would sound, so I'm asking the experts here.

>>159221862
Alright, I'm going to tell you the secret because I'm a genius and clearly you've not the brains to figure this out on your own.

Stick something in your mouth and speak around it. It doesn't have to be a dick. What are you, gay?

>>159222154
It absolutely could still be a dick though, no reason to rule that out completely.

>>159222154
Chill out, anon, it was just a joke.
I tried it while brushing my teeth but I'm still not sure how to write it, I heard some hybrid letters and I'm not sure how to handle them.

>>159222429
>I tried it while brushing my teeth
How did you fit a toothbrush and a dick in your mouth at the same time?

>>159222347
Whoa, man, that's like, gay and shit.

>>159222429
Give us an example of some dialogue in normal English and we'll translate to mouthful-of-cock-English.

>>159222615
Should've done that first, right.

いふでも イッへふふあはい
You can cum whenever you want!

Normal japanese line should be like this, いつでも イッてください.

I need a redrawer for a couple pages. I really suck at it no matter how much time I take.

>>159223025
How difficult? Post them and maybe a wandering redrawer could help you.

>>159206745
Helping out with some proofreading on Made in Abyss. Just bought a decent wacom tablet for my own personal weeb doodles, but will probably use it to start learning redrawing.

I'm working on four series: one I'm redrawing and I'm ahead of the translations/typesetting, one I'm cleaning/redrawing/typesetting and I'm ahead of the translations, one I'm working solo with the help of a translator who's way ahead of me, and one I'm redrawing where the translator/typesetter is ahead of me.

Even though I'm unemployed this summer and have a ton of free time, I'm still finding it hard to make time to work on scanlating. A bit annoying, especially since I'm going on vacay next week.

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>>159223105
Chio-chan. Like pic related hard. I guess it's nothing for someone experienced and talented in redrawing, but I suck at drawing and anything artistic. This page is done, but there's a bunch of other pages like that through the volume.

>>159223359
all you need to redraw on that page is the shoulder down the top left can be covered up with text this is why you should type set beforehand so you know just how much you need to redraw

>>159223464
The text is only "I didn't notice." and I did redraw it >>159223496 , but I just fucking suck at redrawing.

>>159206745
TLing Jagaaaaaan from ENG to SPN
Shit is comfy as fuck.

>>159222873
You can cum wheneher you wan!

You were right, this is kind of hard. And sounds stupid when written alone up there like that, but when reading doujins people will skim across it and not think twice so don't worry whether it's super accurate or not.

>>159223551
are you using filters? it looks soft as fuck for some reason. that looks fine except you stretched the text on the left. you can also just leave chio-chan--... on the right and add the im sorry to the left text if you can to hide more of your editing if you want

>>159223762
No filters. Only modifications I do for Chio is B/W image mode and resizing PPI to 72 (from 300)

>>159223706

Uu hah gub whe-ebeh uu ahn.

That makes it no longer understandable though I guess, so let's tone it down a bit:

"You cah cuhb whe-ebeh you wahn"

Just remove all sounds that require precise tongue movements or positioning that would be impossible with a big fucking dong in your pie hole.

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>>159223762
>>159223551
>>159223919
And like I said, there's a bunch of pages like that

>>159223464
But actually though moonrunes covering vertical instead of horizontal space makes redrawing unnecessarily tedious

>>159223706
>>159223947
Thanks, I was mostly worried with finding a balance between distortion and readability, but I can work with that.

>>159223997
that's easy, give me 10 min

>>159226131
Dont do it. Come to our channel so I can give you the .psd. It's already been cleaned and fucked with.
#dropout on rizon

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>>159223359
Here's a shitty attempt.
I mostly used the patch and stamp tools and then fixed the lines. I was lazy on the head since it'll be covered.

>>159227292
how do you even tell if a redraw is good

>>159228928
If you do not notice it, it is without flaw.

>>159229208
But different people notice different things, right?
Let's say I am looking for flaws, I would notice that some of the lines in >>159227292 are thinner and sharper than the rest of them, and that some of the hair lines have weird angles. However, if I were just skimming through scans I'd sometimes barely notice even if there was no redraws/the japanese text was whited out.

I guess the question is, what's acceptable?

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>>159226175
Where are you getting these raws? Ripping them from EbookJapan gives me the same screentones, but it doesn't require any cleaning at all. Comic Flapper, the magazine it runs in also gives the same resolution and screentone quality.

Pic related is from EBJ

>>159230945
I mean, the text is all removed and stuff.

>>159230740
It just depends on what you want to release. Some people don't bother to redraw and put the English next to the Japanese. Some just go over it in a white or gray brush, which looks really shitty. And other people try to actually redraw, with varying success.
Don't try to make it perfect, because it never will be. Just realize that there's diminishing returns on trying to improve it, and go until it's "good enough".

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>>159215888
I like to keep myself and my mates set to a schedule so nothing falls behind and into purgatory, but it depends on my schedule. I try to not do more than three at a time though or else I feel like I'm stretching myself too thin.

>>159230945
Anyways, if you want to help us, get on #dropout on IRC, I'll give you the .psd to work on.

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Ignoring all my promises to finish translating my backlog because Matsumoto Leiji's トラジマのミーめ is so cute that I want to challenge myself to finish it within a day.

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TL checking miabyss
If anyone's reading miabyss on some leech site that took a pre TL checked version, realize that any instance of "dead end" is supposed to be "last dive"

>>159232578
Shouldn't there be a "?" at the end of "Where did they go..."?

I'm new to cleaning - what is the line between acceptable and overlevelled?

I'm scanning Chinese rip-off of Color Climax magazine, that was sold in some obscure adult store Japan featuring Japanese girls. Bought it at 20 issues at 10 usd from my American boss.

>>159233222
Depends. Go ask a cleaner around here

>>159235178
Isn't that exactly what he did?

>>159212387
>complaining about a jpg compression of a 950x1364 image
You might be autistic.

If I wanted to crowdfund translations, how would I get started?

>>159238228
Contact a translator that's interested, find out how much you need, collect money.

That new captcha is neat.

>>159238408
What new captcha?

>>159238429
'mark the middle of x'. Finally one where google doesn't seem to care even if I mark the wrong stuff.

>>159238497
Oh. I'm using the noscript option for the captcha because you only get one instead of 100 and it's way faster. Maybe that one is not available without javascript.

>>159238228
What're you even gonna try to get them to do?

>>159238228
Only scum try to make money off pirated work
>>>/out/

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Good enough's my name, shitty scans is my game.

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>>159206745
Will someone pick up Poro?

>>159238736
>That's a doodle

Why would you say that instead of "flyer"?
That makes me annoyed.

Typesetters, what fonts do you use for what situations?
I've even using ccwildwords for bubbles, Augie for speech outside of bubbles, another for SFX, and felt for SFX outside of bubbles, plus a few misc fonts depending on the situation

>>159241386
>wild words and augie

sounds very generic. go pirate some blambot fonts.

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>>159206745
WHY AREN'T YOU SCANLATING THE NEXT BIG SPORT SHONEN!!!

>>159241465
I'm only choosing fonts based off of what other people use so it's no surprise my font choice is generic
I have zero experience with fonts and typesetting otherwise so I don't know what's appropriate. Specific don't suggestions helps me get an idea of what kind of font is good

>>159241930
>WSJ
Niggastream, Jeronimobox.

>>159242082
I'm not the same anon as U19 tard, I'm just mimicking him because it worked, someone actually picked up that shit

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>>159241386
I like akbar for handwritten, Zoinks in all caps for screams and Obelix for fat stuff. The rest is pretty varied.

>>159241930
Considering it, but I need to be convinced that it'll survive the first 1-2 axes.

>>159241234
Fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out.

>>159241386
Those are good choices. Look up Janitor. it's a nice font.

>>159241465
That is not an argument whatsoever. If something's good, then use it. I've seen a few horrible font choices back in the day because people wanted to be special snowflakes and not use mainstream fonts like wild words.

>>159242513
WW is fine, but augie is objectively trash. I have no idea how that font could get so popular in scanlation.
it is pretty much the manga temple of side text.

>>159242291
the upcoming axe will kill Marie, RxL and Sumo
the axe after that is what matters

I hope it survive it so good

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does this qualify as a decent scan?

>>159243716
7.5/10

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>>159243716
If you clean it up a bit, sure.

>No question/exclamation marks at the beginning of sentences

That's disgusting. Is it common practice in South American translated manga?

>>159243937
Yeah Ivrea does it and it's quite annoying.

>>159242602
Eh. It's ok for side text. I wouldn't use it as a dialogue text, however.

>>159243937
>vos
>quilombos
>no ¿ and ¡
Yeah, this is why I read stuff in English. I'm glad I made the effort of reading manga and watching movies in English when I could've done it in Spanish.
Now I get to enjoy movies without dubs or subs and manga without having to read that godawful "spanish".

>>159245571
Right? It always reads super weird in spanish. The tone, vocalization, and all that in my mind is just fucking bad when I read manga in spanish. Maybe it's the way most of them construct the sentences in super stiff standard spanish, or a slight regional variation that sounds overdone or too foreign.
In turn the subvocalization in my mind in english is just way nicer, for manga and foreign media at least.

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Almost done the volume.

>>159245319
>>159242602
What's a better font than augie for dialogue outside of bubbles? Augie has been driving me crazy since I have to make it 80% width because it's too wide

>>159246205
Nice, I'm about to release Bad Boys in a bit.

>>159238736
What font are you using for that narration?
The slightly thick one.

>>159246644
Try janitor, but that one's messy. Segoe Print is also kinda good and you probably already have it installed.

>>159246851
These are all the fonts from that image:

Wild words lower
Boogaloo
Augie

>>159247087
Thank you.

Is Batoto fucking up for anybody else?
I can't upload right now, I'm guessing it's due to that DDos attack that the site is having?

>>159247558
Yup. I forgot to upload Tomo-chan on it last night. I tried this morning and it wouldn't upload.

>>159238679
How autistic are you?

So if I wanted to rip digital releases, Amazon is something I should avoid? What's the preferred site for ripping books?

>>159247558
I uploaded one chapter of made in abyss just fine.

>>159247558
>>159247684
>>159247891
Oh, but I always use remote upload because for some reason I can't upload things directly. Maybe that's the problem you guys are having.

>>159247857
You can remove Amazon DRM with Calibre. If you can, download a sample first to check the quality. I never ripped any amazon books so I have no idea how good it is.

I would also recommend Kobo (you can remove DRM with Obok plugin for Calibre), for the rest of sites out there the quality is shit (Renta, Sokuyomi), books sometimes come in weird formats (Neowing, Honto, Kinokuniya) the DRM updates all the time (ebookjapan) or the tools are nonexistent (Bookwalker)

>>159221862
What series?

How do you redraw speed lines?

>>159253638
path
fill, don't stroke

>>159253638
CSP has rulers you can use for that, or you just have a steady hand.

Don't drop Ane Naru Mono or any other licensed series please by shit press

>>159253977
>Is it possible to use too many fonts?
Sometimes I feel we are. We usually try to match fonts to look like the original text, but that resulted in us using 22 different fonts so far.

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How to unfuck up a raw like this? Or is this quality acceptable?

>>159253977
unless you are doing sound effects yes then it just becomes a mess. i've always chosen readability over fancy font sperg fests.

>>159254670
don't bother with digital

buy the tanks

>>159253977
>Is it possible to use too many fonts?
yeah for speaking text, tasteful italics and bolds for emphasis will do just fine. That and a good translation. A scanlation should be read over very smoothly and different fonts can really disrupt the flow.

SFX I believe are a different story.

>>159254670
I don't think there's any way to fix that. Wait and hope better quality raws come out

>>159253977
For sfx like that it's ok. For normal dialogue it's not ok.

Salsa, please.

>>159255059
Then what if the raws have a dozen different fonts for dialog and narration?

>>159247950
I hate remote upload so much, everytime I do it, I get this bullshit CDN NYC thing instead of what I've actually uploaded.
How do I avoid that? I used to get it right in the past.

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>>159254914
sometimes a decent digital rip makes life bearable tho

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>>159255059
There are very few cases where you should be using bold/italics.
But you should only change font midsentence if that's what the raw does as well.
And I've really only run into that a couple times.

>>159255193
can I see an example of a page?

>>159255066
That's Rustle anon, you should be able to recognize that flor.

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>>159255427
Obviously not all pages have that many, but here's one with 6 different fonts for spoken text and narration.

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how do I fix this?

>>159221862
Post the pages and I'll take a look at them and offer suggestions.

>>159255596
I'd just use the same font and bold/italic variations.

>>159255264
I have no idea. I've only ever had problems with direct uploads. I always remote upload to puush if that's of any help to you.

>>159227292
>>159230740
This honestly looks quite good to me, even after comparing them side by side.

>>159255655
learn how to use the clone tool better?
>>159255596
guy are you fucking trolling? you don't know the different between bold, bigger font size, and normal text?

>>159255655
Content aware fill.

>>159255655
Spot healing brush. Or maybe don't fix it at all. In my experience, things that are very noticeable in full res (usually 6000 pixels tall images) look better and are less noticeable at release resolutions (3000 px in my case).

>>159254670
FineDehalo(rx=1.5, ry=1.5, thmi=80, thma=128, thlimi=50, thlima=100, darkstr=0.2, brightstr=1.0, showmask=0, contra=0.0, excl=true)
Might want to try tweaking rx, ry higher (maybe 2.0), lowering darkstr to 0.0, and tweaking the threshold parameters with the mask activated.

>>159255771
>you don't know the different between bold, bigger font size, and normal text?
They are different fonts though. They're not just the same font bold, bigger or thin.

>>159255826
>Spot healing brush
No, just use content aware fill.
Are you the same guy as last time who told people to do overly time consuming things?

>>159255706
Yeah, I did it successfully with mediafire in the past.
And that's what I still use now.
I guess I put in the wrong download link, oh well I'll just try uploading tomorrow.

>>159255919
This is what it looks like to me:
Ignoring the handwritten font and sfx...
There is a unique but same font for all of the narration
There is a unique font for the thought bubble
The font in the speech bubbles in the right column for the first three panels are the same
The bottom right panel has one bubble on the left with a special sfx/shouting font and the right is a unique font, but honestly I think the font is different because the top 3 panels font for dialogue would look shitty if it were bigger and bolder. Just use the same font in english but larger and potentially bolder (depends on what she's saying)
So yeah, as long as the series is consistent in what it uses the font for (narration, thought bubble, speech, sfx, shouting) across all the pages it's not a big deal.

>>159256100
What?

>>159256100
for some reason my cs2 doesn't have content aware fill. Where can I find it?

>>159256222
"Upgrade" to CS6 / CC

>>159256161
It sure is consistent. I just never paid attention to how many fonts the series I myself read are using until I started working on some. In this series it's the redraws that take up most of the time anyway, so I think using about as many fonts as the original is fine.

>>159255062
Once something is uploaded chances are very slim that someone is going to do it again. By the way, some sources have this kind of shitty aliasing, it's like the publisher does it on purpose.

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So I'm trying to scan some color pages but dunno if it's working, does pic related looks good?

Here's the full size:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/8iyryz

>>159256594
IMO if you can see all the color printing imperfections it's probably high quality enough. In an ideal world that stuff is supposed to have a smooth texture

Rustle is overrated.

>>159256438
ugh content aware fill is too good. I need to figure out how to pirate ps6 sometime.

>>159253638
I make a big black blobby line then use the eraser tool to trim the edges down with shift click

>>159256594
Are you going to pick this one up?

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>>159256222
>CS2

>>159258198
I actually have the CC crack right now, do you want it?

>>159258496
Yes.

>>159258496
That would be greatly appreciated

>>159258549
>>159258555
https://my.mixtape.moe/akbtsj.7z
Password is "ilovedicks"

And swap steps 1 and 2, that was an accident.

>>159258755
Thanks for the dolphin porn.

>>159258496
>>159258755
Does it work with the 2017 version of PS or are these things universal?

>>159258957
2017 is CC.
It lists several versions in the program, but I never actually tried it on anything other than PS CC and Premiere CC

>>159258755
Is there a way to install trial without the cloud shit and/or without signing in with adobe account in the setup?
This was a lot easier without that cloud shit back in the day.

>>159259110
I have the 2015 version of CC.

>>159259401
Oh, I thought CC was 2017 but it actually goes back to 2014.

>>159259225
You can sign up with a temporary email and delete the creative cloud processes from their folders after the install.

>>159253977

Source pls?

This is right up my alley.

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>>159260022
It's called read the thread

Anyone still having problems uploading to batoto? Been trying all afternoon.

>>159261694
stop using trash like batoto and host it yourself

>>159261774
Kill yourself.

>>159249424
>>159251930
>>159261537
You're a faggot.

>>159262464
You kill yourself Batoto loving retard.

>>159262882
You kill yourself Batoto hating retard.

Do anyone here have access to Young King OURs' raws and can share it? Thanks.

>>159206745
Ggggg

>>159263680
buy the mag you leech

>>159261694
Just uploaded something and it worked fine.

"二番目の娘は美人でないけど猫は大美人だと人も言う"

Translate this in a way that doesn't sound fucking stupid, I've never read something that made as little sense as this in Japanese.

>>159267797
"The pleasure of being cummed inside."

>>159267797
How about some context.

If you don't have anything else to discuss, just let the thread die and make a new one in a few days.

>>159274731
My translator is lazy. How do I make them stop taking two weeks to translate 20 page chapters

>>159274970
Find a new translator.

>>159274970
but actually, you can't force anyone to work so just do what >>159274970 says

>>159274970
What are you working on?