[ SECRET POST #2957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2957 ⌋

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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.)