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Anonymous
hey, /hr/. I'm trying my hand at fan-translating manga. I've scanned in the images for the first manga, and at this point, I need to do a little cleanup work, as shown by these images. problem here being that I'm the kind of person that has always used paint for everything, and so I really don't know what I'm doing outside of that. I've downloaded gimpshop, and intend to go through a few online tutorials...basically, I was just wondering if you guys had any advice for someone new to this, anything I should or should not do?
>> Anonymous
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ps. if you're concerned about the compression on the images I've posted, don't worry about it. I still have the originals in bitmap.
>> Anonymous
lrn2lassotool.
>> Anonymous
so do we get a name?
>> Anonymous
>>186513
Marugoto Anjyu Gakuen
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=3975
the description says they're furry, but I'm personally inclined to disagree. as you can see 3/4 of the cast naked in the pics I posted, you can decide for yourself.
>> wtf
main thing you need to do is level the images. google some guides on manga editing and download photoshop or paint shop pro 9
>> Anonymous
You can always post the text translations and the raws and let someone experienced do the insertion. Though levels and clone stamp really aren't that hard to figure out. (But big stuff like what you highlighted is usually left in.)
>> gimp is fine Anonymous
you don't need photoshop. i think "level the images" means correct the white balance, which they certainly do need. here is a tut: http://www.geocities.com/lasm.rm/wb2.html
>> Anonymous
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Basically, when leveling the images, you want them to end up something like this.
>> Anonymous
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Also, don't forget to convert black-and-white images to grayscale first (you should scan them like that already). And save the final b&w products as 16-32 color PNGs (they'll look much better than JPEGs of the same size). Colour images stay as JPEG of course.
>> Anonymous
Rapidshare anyone?
>> Anonymous
>>186618
seconded, raws work just as well
>> Anonymous
no one has raws? ;-;