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I would like to edit Desert Coral ch16; scanlation
Topic Started: Aug 15 2009, 04:20 AM (496 Views)
Kickthekitty

I would like to help with editing. Either by giving photoshop advices or editing your scans myself.
To prove I'm more then just words I made few example pics.
In any case could I get my hands on your unedited scans?


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Just box blur, resize and levels.
Problem is I don't know what should be black (nor what should be white) as there's no clear point for reference in this page. Usually I would just take values from other pages but they would have to had same scan settings and need to be same size too...


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levels, denoise
same problem as above... No way to tell what should be completely black or white. I think I could level it stronger if it wasn't resized.

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levels, box blur, denoise
Easy to level. But LQ. Can't really edit it properly.

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pretty much same as previous.

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Pixel texture was great in this, so I only leveled it.
Did you already edit it?

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Hmm Maybe I wasn't clear enough..
I would like to edit this series, but to do that I would need your unedited scans to work at.
Edited by Kickthekitty, Aug 18 2009, 02:04 PM.
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格好いいさん
Those scans look great but frankly I'm not sure what to do with them...I suppose I could download them and put them together and take the time to rerelase, but they'd obviously be more blurred as is, and it's not easy to send you the original files as I'll address below.

I (personally) don't think its worth playing with Chapter 16 anymore... the scans should have been scanned with a higher DPI. Some pages were also tilted, and at that time I wasn't eager to rip up the book I'd just imported a couple weeks before, to remove the page creases...lol I didn't know people did that but someone told me it's a common practice for scanning....0_o Really a rescan would have the best results, but its already done and cleaned so its not really worth the effort or time.



I don't mind sharing the PSD files to chapter 16, though when I compressed into a zip folder they're a whopping 729 MB, (and where would I upload that?!) Besides, I think they're a systematic mess of unnamed layers and different text layers that would only cause you unnecessary stress in life. But if you're interested and we could get someone else to help, I could definitely use help in the future on chapter 17.

I could use lots of help actually, (probably more than even myself and another person)....because I don't think I'll ever working on another DC chapter alone...it just takes too much time, just figuring out how to translate it is hard enough...I have the scans to 17, but when I took a glance I said "OMG alien-imps and its a wall oftext! A nightmare to translate, clean and typeset" and I feaked out. And when I looked through the rest of the manga, as you'd predict, the text to translate, clean and set kept on running along without stopping...(why, you'd think there would be no words following the first chapter in a manga!)

I hope you can understand though that when I'm about to get serious about school in two weeks, it's impossible to continue working so naively on something so ambitious...not when it stopped being fun..... And so that release might have been a one trick pony, I'm sorry to say... :'(
Edited by FirstAdmin, Aug 18 2009, 11:42 PM.
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i just need ch16 in raw jpg to redo it
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