[ SECRET POST #2957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2957 ⌋

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Comments

Re: manga scans

[(Anonymous)]

Do you mean just scanning the pages, or getting them to a scanlation level of image quality?

Scanning itself is as time consuming as the manga volume itself is long. However long it takes you now to scan one page of something times however many pages in the book. You will need to unbind the book for best results though, which can be time cinsuming and obviously destroys the book, so I wouldn't advise doing it with something you can't get another copy of. Cropping, adjusting, rotating, etc. will also take some time per page, but if all you want is raws to supply to a scanlation team then you can probably skip that part.

Actual scanlating involes all the above plus a lot of time in Photoshop to clean up the raw scan.

Re: manga scans

[solticisekf]

What does cleaning up in PS entail?
I thought to upload it to a filehosting site, or even to add to a manga achieve.

Re: manga scans

[(Anonymous)]

In general, the pages you'll see on e.g. manga reader sites or packaged as part of an archive from scanlation groups are nothing like the quailty you get from an original raw scan.

Cleaning will involve the process of cropping and rotating the scan so that it's orientated properly on the screen (not slanting either way etc.), adjusting the colors if the original scan isn't in black ink (usually a magazine/doujinshi problem more than a manga tankoubon problem), levelling the blacks and whites so that you get a decent crisp contrast without losing detail from the background tones, cleaning any areas of text you want to write over (this may include large SFX which means redrawing the background image once you've removed it, seeing as English text won't always sit directly over the old placement of the text), and generally cleaning up the specks and smudges you get from the original scan.

If you're trying to get scanlations groups interested, then chances are they'll want to do that part themselves because individual groups have their own processes for doing it. They will want the best HQ scans you can give them, though, because the higher the original quality the easier the above all becomes.

And that's ideally why you want to unbind the book. If you scan thicker books, at various points in the process you're going to get a LOT of bending of the margin, which can distort your scan and possibly cut off either parts of an image, or worse, parts of the text. In some cases where the background image/text is complex/small, that makes it virtually impossible to get a decent-looking and readable finish.

Re: manga scans

[solticisekf]

Thank you so much! This is a great info.

Editing doesn't sound too difficult...
I don't want to deal with the glue that comes with unbinding, to be honest.
The manga is in English, so it doesn't need a scanlation/translation. I just googled 'scanlation', I could be wrong here.
I'll have to see if my urge to share is strong enough, I guess.)