What are you working on & what are you planing to work on in 2016?
What do you need help with?
What are you being a lazy shit and not working on?
tinyurl com/ScanlationBulletin
Typesetting guide:
prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/
Looks like china improved omd and it can get LN from EBJ now. Anyone know how to?
Scanlation confirmed for dead in 2016
called it. The group will close one by one and nothing is left.
I finished my last project, but I don't want to start another. I think I've had enough.
New year, new books to scan. Nejishiki is huge.
bato.to/comic/_/comics/nejishiki-r17158
>>135591696
None of your business.
Right or left?
>>135593083
Right, but maybe a little smaller so it doesn't go over the action lines. Or you could outline the text in white and keep the size.
Since both of my typesetters are kill, I do look for some others to replace them since it'll take me years ;_;
E-Mail's in the Options
>>135591696
Implying any of you scanlation faggots make dime doing it. Congrats you work for free to give me my material to fap to. You're truly doing god's work. You must love not being noticed for literally anything you scanlate or translate but hey. To each their own, I'm not a social worker, but you dumbasses need to find some way to make green or else I'll just have to keep calling you out on your mental retardation.
Everyone wants e-fame but you won't get it doing scanlation.
>>135593083
Right but make the font smaller.
>>135593247
are you that chen-poster from the other day who owes that anon payment
>>135591948
It's already dead if /a/ has to be a big part of it.
>>135592298
Oh fuck yes. Thanks for that.
>planning to work on in 2016
Well I'm one of those tertiary coder and automation guys. Got a few ideas in mind, but I wouldn't want anyone to get their hopes up.
>People still use photoshop
I think 2016 will be cancer, just like 2015.
>>135593439
>I'm one of those tertiary coder and automation guys
Can you help with >>135591819 ?
>>135591819
Get LNs from rakten, easier to rip.
>>135593501
what do people even use instead of photoshop these days
If i want to make/get an online reader for a local server how would I go about this? Something for any browser that can read archived folders and has the basic click for next page.
>>135593744
He'll probably say something stupid like Krita.
>>135593788
Take a look at foolslide?
>>135592298
I can't imagine how you scanners much manage your time, that looks like it would take 5-6 hours to scan. Are you all NEET?
>>135593850
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.
>>135593629
Probably not right now. Taking a break from coding. If you've got an example of a LN right now, I could at least see how easy it is.
>>135593802
Literally any picture manipulating program is better than photoshop you fucking pleb. Tell me? have you every tried looking up programs aside from what adobe creates? I bet you're a fucking window's user. Fuck off with this nonsense, you want better scanlation tech, try fucking paying for better shit instead of crack torrents that run like shit on client-side scripts.
>>135594109
Are you feeling down, mate?
I only scanlate doujinshi when I feel like it
I feel bad for all the groups working on manga who desperately need translators, but I don't like responsibility.
What can I expect the average file size of each page to be if I want to stay at 600dpi? I tried using zopflipng for compression but the difference was miniscule and the file sizes are still way too large for me to justify. At the same time though, I spent a lot of time and effort scanning and editing all the pages myself and I don't wan't to lose the image quality. Is there anything else I can do?
>>135593966
Not him, but how easy is it to build one of those auto-flipping digital camera setups? /diy/ seems to make them, but are they actually any good for manga?
>>135594317
35mb~ cropped for an average 600dpi greyscale page at regular tank size.
>>135594317
>average
All depends on amount of black and screentone on the page.
>>135594031
There's some free ones if you want to test http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/title/192498.html?volume=2&branch_no=1
>>135594358
Also, the openlibrary project has a few Sazae-san volumes that appear to be scanned with digital cameras. They're also super-large images.
>>135593219
What happened to Patrick? Kyomu Senki's been dead for some three months now.
>>135594317
600dpi quality will always be big. What I do is keep all originals and raws in a separate drive and mega and use 300dpi for reading and handy storage.
h-how mad are people if you scan with a phone?
>>135594358
I think just getting an actual dedicated scanner would be better in the long-run.
That being said, there's very little useful research or information about what scanners to use for manga. I only bought a Canon 9000F because I knew a couple people with that model, so I was able to get some samples that satisfied the editor. If only we had a Newegg warehouse guy who could test new scanners for us.
>>135594702
Define people.
>>135594702
Not even mad as long as it's not too tiny or blurry.
>>135594702
Go look at Ravages of Time and tell me.
>>135593209
>>135593250
Like this?
>>135595444
Looks like the left and right page aren't completely aligned (look at the top border on the left side, white strip).
>>135595581
i forgot to redraw this part thanks
>>135594435
>35mb
Oh, I'm only averaging 3MB on a regular greyscale page and 6MB on spreads. Is that actually okay? I figured it was too big since the file size I see for most pages is less than 1MB so I thought I must be doing something wrong.
>>135594613
I keep the untouched original scans in their own folder and then the ones I want to use as finals are shrunk to half-size but keep the resolution, and somehow I miraculously managed to avoid the patterning issues that I see happen a lot when people resize. I saved some test pages in 300dpi but it made the screentones look awful and a lot of subtle details in the line art were lost so I'm trying to avoid it.
>>135595878
35mb is for tif in IrfanView, with no scanner filters, etc. I just default to tif, you might be doing PNG or something. If the pages are only 3mb, you should just post a page and someone can yell at you if there's something wrong with it.
>>135594109
???
>>135593501
What do you use ?
Do proofreaders literally just read through scripts and make them readable? That seems kind of redundant, unless the translator is terrible at stringing together sentences in a coherent manner.
Is a such page salvageable?
>tfw scarletmoon guy is literally dead
>Strange Fake literally never
>>135596510
>terrible at stringing together sentences in a coherent manner
A lot of them are.
Can someone PLEASE translate Matsuno Susumu's Neighborhood Camp and Hot Springs mangas... Nihon Dandy or whatever group is laggin it for months.
>>135596635
Isn't that already translated though?
>>135596510
Most groups have translators that can't write in english at all so they need someone to decipher esl gibberish and then rewrite it. Most the translation mistakes you see is those proofers having no fucking clue and making shit up. I'm still trying to figure out if they groups that hire those translators are stupid, desperate or getting a job in their group for their friends.
>>135596871
Like 4 chapters are missing still need to be translated form the first Vol, and the second one is supposed to be coming out soon.
>>135596746
Link for camp in case anyone is up to it...
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4TA34BXMMWTSYKUBWC37WYDS27XAROTS&dn=%28C87%29+%5B%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3+%28%E6%9D%BE%E9%87%8E%E3%81%99%E3%81%99%E3%82%80%29%5D+%E3%81%99%E3%81%A3%E3%81%BD%E3%82%93%E3%81%BD%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E7%94%BA%E5%86%85%E4%BC%9A%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97+%28%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%29+%5BDL%E7%89%88%5D+zip
>>135596888
>>135596727
Jesus, I didn't know it was that bad. I always thought the asking for proofreaders thing was kinda weird. Never realized it was an actual problem.
>>135596975
It's not that bad, just some TLs need to read a fucking novel every now and then because their vocabulary/sentences suck.
>>135596510
VIz Jump need a proofreader
>>135597056
You'd have a point if proofers actually read fucking novels themselves. All they do is make things look less like DUWANG.
>>135594109
m8, you on high?
>>135597123
Most official translations need to invest in way more QC. If they want people to actually pay for their shit, they need to at least eliminate really stupid typos and shit.
>>135594109
So what you're saying is that I should use Adobe Illustrator?
>>135594702
This was from a picture taken with a phone. Is this acceptable?
Anon gave us the script for Jump+ in last thread, and he said its released by one of Chinese guy on QQ group. Someone know where is that "QQ group" ?
>>135594317
>At the same time though, I spent a lot of time and effort scanning and editing all the pages myself and I don't wan't to lose the image quality.
>>135595878
>Oh, I'm only averaging 3MB on a regular greyscale page and 6MB on spreads.
First of all, don't use jpg to save scans. Second, if you planing to release them for general public, then x1600 - x1800 is enough for most people who doesn't have 4K monitors.
Hello. Are there RAWs for Asano Inio's Ozanari-kun yet? I bought a copy myself and was wondering if anyone's interested enough in scanlating it.
>>135594109
At first I thought you were bait, then I thought you were adobe dev false flagging now I'm starting to think you have real brain problems.
>>135597718
Want to know too.
Is it weird at the bottom left? i had to do that in order to hide something hard to redraw
>>135598307
Yes and looks awful. Just hyphenate the shit out of it if you're going to do that.
>>135597718
Something something jraw something
>>135598375
I don't get why people do vertical text. It looks fucking ugly. Also erase the vertical ellipsis and replace it with another using the same size as the dialogue font.
>>135598307
I think it looks fine. I doubt your readers would care.
>>135598375
>be-cause I...
I dunno what would be worse. And in this case he will have to redraw too much.
>>135598307
>vertical ellipsis
>>135598646
You should avoid putting in "I" alone in a line. It looks awkward and ugly.
>>135598434
Because not everyone can draw on pair with the author, and even reshaping bubbles can be a chore. Though I never do it if line has more than one word, or ellipses.
>>135598646
Anon, put some ellipsis after "I" for Christ sake, and don't ever use jpg for b/w sans.
>>135598646
File -> Save for Web
How do you get rid of bleed through, guys?
>>135598895
Wouldn't em dash be better there? It's the end of page after all.
>>135594607
yeah, I dunno, he was busy with moving and then didn't write for a while so yeah, I consider him kill or having a real life now.
>>135599057
By buying the book and scanning it myself.
>>135594109
>brb using MSPaint
>>135598412
>jraw
R2JRAW?
>>135598971
>checked "convert to sRGB"
Nigga...
>>135599083
AFAIK, in English it depends on what next, but usually em dash used when sentence interrupted for some reason, while ellipsis used to indicate that line trailing off or connecting with the other line.
Up and running again.
Grisaia no Kajitsu L'Oiseau Bleu - Stalled. Need a redrawer.
Again!! - New Chapter out soon.
Grisaia no Kajitsu Sanctuary Fellows - Translation Stage.
Omaera Zenin Mendokusai! - Progressing thanks to Village Idiot, but still need a dedicated cleaner for the series.
Madoka Doujins - Stalled. Need a cleaner.
LDK - Dropped.
Need the cleaner and a redrawer, and until then, projects are going to be stalled.
>>135599083
http://www.blambot.com/grammar.shtml
>>135599515
>There is no Em or En dash in comics
>Because early comic book letterers were not aware of the typographic convention of replacing a typewritten double hyphen with an em dash, the double hyphen became traditional in American comics. This practice has continued despite the development of computer lettering.
Way to go, America.
>>135599562
Did you cleaned it beforehand or what? Ideally, it should be looked like this.
>>135599404
>caring about color profiles on a b/w manga page
>implying anyone will actually notice a difference
Nigga...
>>135599825
pointless with digital raw
>>135599262
No not that one. It is the one with .net
>>135599825
you made it worst
>>135600012
It throw colors off, and you may end up with unpredictable results. Also most people who using sfw to save in png usually compare scans, and indeed most care very much about different coloring and then process to save scans in rgb or in jpg. That's why we have so many autists who using png24 and bloating scans for no reason or killing them with low quality jpg.
>>135591696
Just dropping in to say thank you for the hard work, cant wait for mere jitsu wa watashi wa to be translated!
>>135600066
Nope.
>>135598518
This. No one will care about. People just want to read it.
>>135598895
Ellipse at end of the page?? weird.
>>135599262
Jraw.net
>>135600363
since when anon translate Jitsu wa?
>>135600478
The page ending with the floor m8.
>>135600194
Oh, got it, thanks anon. But they stop to register as a new member.
Typesetting random chapters and waiting for the magazine with Gleipnir to come out in a few days.
Just swinging by to say, that you are all wonderful people.
Have a nice 2016.
Why do you translate/Typeset/Redraw & Clean Manga?
>>135602224
Because i have nothing to do with my life.
>>135600623
there is probably the following sentence in the next page. It's weird.
>>135602224
Helps me practice Japanese so I can drop all the series I do once I'm fluent and leave you all without translations.
Is it stupid to save an unleveled raw as a png? I usually steer clear of jpegs but if tiff weren't an option, would this be one of the times jpeg was more appropriate?
>>135602224
Because I think this is cool and I want to share it with others.
Also because I like it and want to discuss it with people.
>>135602430
>Is it stupid to save an unleveled raw as a png?
It's reasonable.
>>135602430
No need for png, any jpeg artifacts will go away during cleaning. It'll just increase the filesize
>>135593501
>>135602224
Because it's how the manga I read got to my hands and without other people doing it, I wouldn't know any of my favorites. I just want to give back.
>>135604069
Enjoy quantized textures.
I'm interested in translating a doujin by Hirama Hirokazu. It's a one-shot (so no continuation as far as I'm aware), 18 pages, nothing too complicated. Pic related is the first page, it's about a kid who goes into his family's shrine to fap in privacy and gets his virginity taken by the white snake goddess.
Unfortunately I can only translate and need someone to do all the editing (cleaning, typesetting, etc). Would anyone be interested? I can't pay money but I'll translate 1 doujin of your choice in return. The Japanese raws aren't the best of quality but I'm looking for better ones.
>>135604312
Here's another page
>>135604312
I'm interested, but I've never done doujins. Do you have a link to the full thing?
>>135604312
>douijin
>obviously general h-manga
>>135604312
If it isn, t anything too hard i will do it.
Leave a email or something so i can contact you.
>>135604408
>>135604715
For some reason the site I originally downloaded the raws from removed them. Here's a link to garbage quality scans, they should give you an idea on what the entire thing looks like. I can MF marginally better scans later. Thanks very much for offering your help.
http://2zigazo.com/blog-entry-1834.html
Here's my throwaway email.razacortez@outlook_comNo, that's not my real name
>>135604892
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/785911/6a849e31b8/?p=6
>>135605043
Oh sweet, thanks. That solves the problem for raws.
>>135604892
Sent.
Still looking for someone to edit Bakuon Rettou so I can focus on the TLs
Is Sokuyomi anon here?
What's the use of soft light and hard light?
I've seen tutorials on manga scanlation that use it but I can't see what it does.
>>135602224
Because people are masochists who want to post their work and get yelled at for doing it wrong no matter how they did it
>>135604207
This is also the reason for me.
>ahahaha he's making a hilarious post about his bad scanning
I cant....
fucking need to buy a portable scanner.
>>135606688
Has anybody actually ever used one of those $30 portable scanners? I thought of getting one once, but in the end I decided not too. I'm curious if it's actually worth it.
Only other alternative seems to be those $300 book scanners.
>>135606777
You can buy some Epson with ccd matrix for 100-150. Dunno about portable scanners, but I worked with industrial scanners that used the same principle, and you probably will get two common things: crunch up pages and dealing with bleeding.
>>135606688
>That image quality
Eww
>>135607041
But those still have regular thick borders, no? I mean these ones, that let you scan within 2mm of the spine.
bumping, can anyone help with cleaning this page?
Well I'll be damned. Turns out many comic fonts have those neat crow's feet symbols in place of "[ ]" or "{ }".
Editor post your worse edit and laugh at others one.
I am humbly requesting any scanlator to please pick this up.
New series by Amazume Ryuta, nigger who does Nana to Kaoru.
Misoji Otome to Mote Hatachi
>Natsuki, the beautiful madonna of the university photography club, is famous for having relieved countless men of their virginity. However, the girl that Hirata the freshman has his eyes on is not Natsuki, but her big sister Fuyuki.
>Fuyuki is a 30-year-old bookstore employee who's never had a boyfriend in her life, and she even looks younger than her little sister. How can Natsuki help Hirata in wooing this late bloomer and introducing her to the pleasures of sex?
My dick needs it badly.
