Initial D - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The UItimate Tofu Store Drift!
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@QSS Of course I don't. I'm not pretending to be a photoshop savant. It's a learning experience. While I do thank you for releasing the guides that helped make this possible, I'm gonna have to quote you: A good cleaner is one that knows what kind of tool is appropriate to use in what situation. That takes practice. I'm still figuring that out.
I get your critique but this is miles better beyond than what currently exists, and I'm working on it as hard as I can within my free time, like plenty of other people. I save all my files and I'm willing to go back and patch things up if I make any mistakes. Thank you taking the time to leave a comment, it's appreciated.
I get your critique but this is miles better beyond than what currently exists, and I'm working on it as hard as I can within my free time, like plenty of other people. I save all my files and I'm willing to go back and patch things up if I make any mistakes. Thank you taking the time to leave a comment, it's appreciated.
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Not trying to make backhanded comments, @Hornet- I can tell you straight that the cleaning is bad instead, if that's what you want. I'd expect a newbie to not know how to clean. If anyone was skilled right off the bat, I'd be surprised. Not trying to say you should or shouldn't improve either, that's not really my business.
I just found the contrast between what seems to be high quality scanning and beginner level cleaning rare/interesting. Usually scanning quality is the last thing people bother with in scanlation.
@desmond_ big oof was not expecting to meet anyone who actually read that. Well, if you have any questions about what to do you can ask me ^_^'
I just found the contrast between what seems to be high quality scanning and beginner level cleaning rare/interesting. Usually scanning quality is the last thing people bother with in scanlation.
@desmond_ big oof was not expecting to meet anyone who actually read that. Well, if you have any questions about what to do you can ask me ^_^'
Well, for anyone who complaints about this quality, why you dont try to help him cleaning images???
He already give you much better Quality Image, if you want to see the difference between his work and previous one, you can tell it clearly improved than before since previous one is like hell (much more blurry due 90s drawing style, well I cant blame that anyway).
As for translation, I wont complaint anymore because it suits me and easier to grasp than previous TL.
He already give you much better Quality Image, if you want to see the difference between his work and previous one, you can tell it clearly improved than before since previous one is like hell (much more blurry due 90s drawing style, well I cant blame that anyway).
As for translation, I wont complaint anymore because it suits me and easier to grasp than previous TL.
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@QSS Sure will. Once again, thanks for the guides. Right now, I'm solely focused on practicing and refining my techniques until I fine tune the process as I go on. Of course, later on I'll go through my past work and update that as well. If you have any other general advice or recommendations that hasn't been listed in your guides, I will read them and make note. Thanks for checking out my scan.
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@desmond_ based on what I see in the chapters...
- I'm seeing a lot of odd edges. If you set your photoshop background to white, you can very easily see the edges where you didn't fully crop away the black. It'll also let you more easily see dark spots/yellowed paper at the edges where you can just white it out with a white brush tool
- I can see a lot of spots of paper texture in the margins between panels and the page edge. I have no idea what your raw quality is or how you're filtering/leveling the scans, but you can use a bubble cleaning action to clean the margins - just use the wand tool to select the white space and run this action https://mega.nz/#!yLZk2IYI!P21hbQUlrhcrPgip-Jr3_2zpUUP2hQHHnuPve3XmMDg - Note this will also erase the art if the art is not enclosed in a panel. In those cases, it may be better to brush out the dust by hand instead. (the page number will also be erased, that may affect whether you want to do this or not)
- Rotate before cropping, though you may actually just not be cropping to the page edge. I'd recommend cropping so that you don't see any of the page edges at all. Even though that means you'll crop away some of the edges of the pages since they're never printed straight, manga artists never put anything important near the edges of the paper because of imperfections in the printing process. Not that you should carelessly crop away, just don't feel bad about deleting the edges. For art that does matter, you can redraw in the missing edges or crop more carefully.
- look at the section about cloning errors here https://fascans.com/featured/basic-redrawing-tutorials-part-1-using-clone-stamp-tool-effectively/
- can't tell if you're using it, but usually people will put a black piece of construction paper or contact paper (any matte flat thin dark surface) between the paper and the lid to avoid art bleeding through to the other side (it affects areas with screentones), though I haven't seen any problems with that yet. (possibly top right page 18 on chapter 2?) It's essentially impossible to recover from it once you're past scanning.
- it's standard practice to resize every image to a consistent height. 4000px height is a pretty accepted value, but if the images having different heights doesn't bother you you can just keep doing what you're doing.
- I wouldn't bother backtracking and updating stuff. English typos and glaring mistakes aside, forging ahead is better for motivation and a better use of time.
Oh yeah, learn how to use typesetterer, presets, actions, and the bubble cleaning action sooner rather than later.
Also, I only ever wrote the dusting guide. Everything else was written by other people, so the only thing I did was link them
They deserve the credit for taking the time to write them.
- I'm seeing a lot of odd edges. If you set your photoshop background to white, you can very easily see the edges where you didn't fully crop away the black. It'll also let you more easily see dark spots/yellowed paper at the edges where you can just white it out with a white brush tool
- I can see a lot of spots of paper texture in the margins between panels and the page edge. I have no idea what your raw quality is or how you're filtering/leveling the scans, but you can use a bubble cleaning action to clean the margins - just use the wand tool to select the white space and run this action https://mega.nz/#!yLZk2IYI!P21hbQUlrhcrPgip-Jr3_2zpUUP2hQHHnuPve3XmMDg - Note this will also erase the art if the art is not enclosed in a panel. In those cases, it may be better to brush out the dust by hand instead. (the page number will also be erased, that may affect whether you want to do this or not)
- Rotate before cropping, though you may actually just not be cropping to the page edge. I'd recommend cropping so that you don't see any of the page edges at all. Even though that means you'll crop away some of the edges of the pages since they're never printed straight, manga artists never put anything important near the edges of the paper because of imperfections in the printing process. Not that you should carelessly crop away, just don't feel bad about deleting the edges. For art that does matter, you can redraw in the missing edges or crop more carefully.
- look at the section about cloning errors here https://fascans.com/featured/basic-redrawing-tutorials-part-1-using-clone-stamp-tool-effectively/
- can't tell if you're using it, but usually people will put a black piece of construction paper or contact paper (any matte flat thin dark surface) between the paper and the lid to avoid art bleeding through to the other side (it affects areas with screentones), though I haven't seen any problems with that yet. (possibly top right page 18 on chapter 2?) It's essentially impossible to recover from it once you're past scanning.
- it's standard practice to resize every image to a consistent height. 4000px height is a pretty accepted value, but if the images having different heights doesn't bother you you can just keep doing what you're doing.
- I wouldn't bother backtracking and updating stuff. English typos and glaring mistakes aside, forging ahead is better for motivation and a better use of time.
Oh yeah, learn how to use typesetterer, presets, actions, and the bubble cleaning action sooner rather than later.
Also, I only ever wrote the dusting guide. Everything else was written by other people, so the only thing I did was link them
They deserve the credit for taking the time to write them.
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@QSS Thank you for that write-up, that's extremely useful. The odd cropping is due to trying to crop the page itself as I was worried with chapter 1 I was cutting slightly into the art that borders the page. That's why it's slightly inconsistent in size.
I would attribute the paper texture to inadequate leveling.
Yeah, I was trying to rotate and crop, it's just kinda hard since ALOT of the panels in this manga are misaligned. I'll keep this in mind.
I did see some bleeding in the raws before they got leveled, but that disappeared after what I did. On page 18 it isn't bleeding, at least what I can tell from my unleveled raw. Since scanning chapter 4 I use construction paper ontop the paper like you said.
I'll take care of the size as the releases go on, I think it's the best for the future anyway.
That aside, I'll go back when I have free time later on, just because I do want to do as much as I can for this series. It's a personal favorite, and that's how much it matters to me, however I will keep this in mind when I scanlate other manga. I was figuring out Typesetterer and so forth as I was editing this as well, so I hope to get it down when I do chapter 4. I understand that the guide was alot of other sources, you created a useful compendium to refer to when doing this. That's what matters about what you did, but I do also appreciate the numerous guides written by other people that made all of this possible. If you do ever check out the future chapters, let me know how I'm doing if you can. Thanks again for feedback, can't say enough how helpful that is.
I would attribute the paper texture to inadequate leveling.
Yeah, I was trying to rotate and crop, it's just kinda hard since ALOT of the panels in this manga are misaligned. I'll keep this in mind.
I did see some bleeding in the raws before they got leveled, but that disappeared after what I did. On page 18 it isn't bleeding, at least what I can tell from my unleveled raw. Since scanning chapter 4 I use construction paper ontop the paper like you said.
I'll take care of the size as the releases go on, I think it's the best for the future anyway.
That aside, I'll go back when I have free time later on, just because I do want to do as much as I can for this series. It's a personal favorite, and that's how much it matters to me, however I will keep this in mind when I scanlate other manga. I was figuring out Typesetterer and so forth as I was editing this as well, so I hope to get it down when I do chapter 4. I understand that the guide was alot of other sources, you created a useful compendium to refer to when doing this. That's what matters about what you did, but I do also appreciate the numerous guides written by other people that made all of this possible. If you do ever check out the future chapters, let me know how I'm doing if you can. Thanks again for feedback, can't say enough how helpful that is.
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@desmond_ one final thing for now. Sometimes when you try to join a double page, the screentones won't match up. If for some reason you can't shift around the pages (already cropped, screentones are at different angles, etc) use the healing brush tool on content aware fill setting to try to make it look more seamless.
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