@Shantsu This is a great job for your first attempt, just some suggestions on your typesetting. Keep in mind I am NOT a top tier typesetter, this is just stuff that I as a mediocre typesetter (on Late Marrying Fox) noticed. And this is not to poop on you or say you suck! We all went through learning.
So these are the heuristics I use, most of which you did great.
- Not really TS, but you might want to convert your images to greyscale for smaller files, avoid some color things that can happen.
- Always try to center your text in the container. You did great.
- Be consistent with your fonts and sizes, only use different fonts and sizes where the manga did or where you have to reduce it to make it fit. Do not make it larger just to fill the contianer. You did this great.
- Never rotate text 90 degrees right unless it's for sidebar text or where editorial added a text bar or had it tilted (like on page 1). I think you were fine here.
- If the bubble is very skinny and the text is short or an SFX, you can do vertical text by adding a manual line break after each letter. That was not an issue here.
- Add white outline to your black text, especially sfx, where it crosses black or dark areas (and vice versa for white text). You did great here, though the tiny ones on page 5 maybe could have used another pixel width of white.
- The best shape for your text is the shape of the container! It makes it much easier to read.
- If it's a box, try for a box shape. If it's a bubble try for a bubble shape.
- A bubble shape can work in a box if you can't do a box shape.
- Avoid an hourglass shape where you have wide lines then skinny lines then wide lines. Of course you can't always do that, sometimes slight hourglass shape is unavoidable. But use the Enter key aggressively to add manual line breaks, and hyphenate words to avoid the hourglass shape.
- If you hyphenate, try not to hyphenate any given word more than once.
- Some people will tell you to never hyphenate, but I think it's less ugly than the hourglass and the best TSes I know do hyphenate.
- Do not hyphenate randomly! Hyphenate only where grammatically correct (I use https://www.hyphenator.net/ if unsure) or turn hyphenation on in Photoshop.
- Always leave the '-' on the top line. i.e. 'seri-' 'ously', not 'seri' '-ously'.
- Obviously you can't always do it perfectly, but you can usually make the shape much more balanced.
- Avoid orphan punctuation (? . !) that should be on the previous line, like 'friend' '?' You did great.
- Try to keep text away from the edges of the bubbles.
- If you just can't make it fit, having the text go out of the sides of the bubble with a white stroke outline is better than rotating the text 90 degrees sideways.
Some very quick examples from page 16, original on the left, modified on the right. On top adding a line break keeps the words away from the edges, and it just looks a little more balanced. On bottom, showing how just adding a line break between "what's" and "the" makes everything much nicer. If you were purposely adding line breaks to keep the duty!? pity!? or is it on separate lines to separate them as breaks in the train of thought, then that would at least have fixed the worst hourglass in the first sentence. (I am using a similar font because I don't know exactly which one you used, but it would still work like this).
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Again, I am in no way a great TS, and you did a great job for your first time, but you did ask for feedback, so here you go!