What are you working on & What are you planning to work on?
What do you need help with?
What are you being a lazy shit and not working on?
tinyurl com/ScanlationBulletin
>tinyurl com/ScanlationBulletin
No one is using this.
>What are you being a lazy shit and not working on
Everything.
>>136077917
I want to pick up Big Order or Biorg Trinity as I know someone who'd translate them for me, but I need a good redrawer.
>>136077917
>What are you being a lazy shit and not working on?
Waiting to see if raws will show up so I don't have to buy them myself and delaying everything as a result.
>>136077917
Someone looking for a cool new project to work on or really anyone please check out Shinjuku Swan. Only 3 chapters have been translated by Vinceled, he was looking for cleaners, typesetters and all that shit but I'm guessing he already quit it after 200 days.
Only 3 chapters but this thing is really damn good, it's all about sex industry, yakuza, loan sharks, business and money in general, both art and story are great, no idea how difficult or easy it might be to redraw thought.
>Shiratori Tatsuhiko was a bum wandering the streets with no money to his name when he meets Mako. He works as a scout for an agency called Burst that recruits girls on the streets for adult entertainment in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Tatsuhiko quickly learns the techniques of scouting and is even more attracted to how much money he can make. But with how the industry is maintained, Tatsuhiko has to deal with the lying, deception, violence, greed and even the yakuza. He wants to keep the morals that he has, but it gets progressively harder and harder as he gets deeper into the other side of society.
Is there really anything more I should do to these images? I'm a translator not a cleaner, so I don't really have much of a clue what I'm doing here
>>136079691
Is the right hand side curved slightly by the spine? Because it seems a bit darker. Apart from that, it seems ok.
Is there anyone who'd continue Tokiwa Kitareri?
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=117313
The last group quit after chapter 30.
>>136079785
Possibly, I avoided debinding but didn't think there were any particularly noticeable shadows from it.
Thinking about learning cleaning, typesetting. Is this even needed by anyone anyway? It seems anyone could do it.
>>136079974
>It seems anyone could do it.
You'd be amazed how badly people can fuck this up.
Is Sokuyomi anon here?
>>136079974
>It seems anyone could do it.
I know i had an image that i said I'd post every time someone said that but i don't remember what i named it, so have this one instead.
What the best way to find a translator for manga expect paying a pro? Spaming the RAW on /a/? I am seeking one for Kono oto tomare!
Fried Squid Scans is taking forever
>last chapter: 80 days ago
>>136080111
Is this whole left side for manual cleaning and redrawing?
>know how to use photoshop
>want to apply to a scanlation group doing a manga im reading so I can help
>all the scanlation groups require "previous experience"
>>136080636
If they use volume raws, just go ahead. You only need experience for magazines.
>>136080547
>>136080111
I mean i don't know if this is some cleaning "challenge" or you showing me how someone fucked up.
>>136080767
Even then, I know what Id have to do for magazines as well. Its just that Ive never actually done it before.
>>136080636
>get some raws
>clean them
>present them
Wow, that was hard.
>>136080768
> i don't know if this is some cleaning "challenge"
Whatever floats your boat anon, if you don't have anything better to do give it a shot.
Heck, here have another one.
I'm a translator fluent in Japanese, how likely is it that I can get paid for my services?
>>136081222
Sure, I'm not sure at the left part though. Are those black blobs some shit from scanning, or it supposed to be there? Cause there are some white stars there too so it shouldn't be white.
>>136081222
This is just a fucking garbage scan in monochrome mode, so much detail lost you shouldn't even bother with it
>>136081352
Now I feel like I'm just getting trolled.
are double spread page from the tankobon with a bit of blur in the middle acceptable when you don't have better raw?
>>136081273
Your better off getting an actual job
>>136081734
No one really cares about the quality of a scanlation, just do your best, that's it. People will eat it up either way.
>>136081273
Viz Jump need you
How did the whole scanlation thing begun in the first place?
>>136082271
Probably someone paying for translated hentai.
>>136081844
>Your
>>136082271
Some dude for whatever reason wrote all this:
http://www.insidescanlation.com/history/
I can't remember what ties he had. But it seemed mostly right from what I bothered reading of it. I'm not sure it goes back as far as you'd want though.
>>136081222
can you show the original page?
>>136078654
maybe you should stop doing manga that you don't like
>>136080111
Finished. I gave it my ganbatte
>>136084111
Is this a joke?
>>136084111
>>136082737
I don't have it, i just posted that as a joke, that's actually a page released by cr.
You can check it yourself if you want, they probably haven't fixed it yet. It's the latest chapter of "kiss him, not me".
>>136084290
You forgot to crop the left side a bit.
Also, you should save it in RGB JPG 5 since there are a lot of tones on this page.
See all that black? You should go over that with a black brush. Also, white out the bubble with a white brush.
Keep it up! :^)
>>136081846
Even something like this?
>>136085377
Whoever scanned that fucked up, but it's readable. I'd just find someone to scan books for you who actually know what the fuck they're doing.
I have Photoshop elements 8 right now, is it worth it to buy a more recent version? Or another photoshop program?
>>136086011
>/a/
>buying?
What's going on?
>>136086056
We wouldn't want to clue off the NSA to piracy of image editing programs.
>>136086011
for scanlation? no.
>>136085117
it isn't from the same anon
>What are you working on & What are you planning to work on?
Fucking Grappler Baki, Baki Dou, Baki Gaiden: Scarface
>What do you need help with?
Getting someone to steal the project from SpinyBack (the person, not the group) so that we can expedite the process of completion of the original series and catch up to the latest Baki Dou chapters(he demands donations for releases despite having a full-time job). He is not a native English speaker(Mexican), so I run QC, text/translation editing and typesetting. The cleaner is, uh, subpar.someone pls help me and this series escape this hell
>>136088443
How to redraw color page?
>>136089239
You/we don't. We don't have a redraw person at all. Just somebody pls help
this is an average page we receive from our cleaner (after I placed the text over it, of course)
like, there's no way for me to cover up all of that shit with text
essentially all he does is white out the kanji/kana
pls help
For starters, use a narrow font and reformulate the sentence in order to have more text covering the long ass white space.
Once you've done that and considering you suck at redrawing, use the stamp clone until you've filled the white space and then use the brush to fix things that looks way too off.
You can bump the value of the white strokes a little more too.
What font would you use for this?
>>136091402
http://www.dafont.com/haunt-aoe.font
I use this for that kind of font.
>>136088443
What happened here?
Is there any recent guides to unbinding something to scan?
>>136091607
Thanks, I usually just stick to cleaning and redrawing so ive got no clue on fonts. Also just read that chapter, Keep up the good work!
>>136091846
A sniper shot the absolute fuck out of Hanayama.
>>136088443
>he demands donations for releases despite having a full-time job
If he's literally holding back releases until he gets paid, then he's a dick. I can understand him just not wanting to pay for raws himself though. I've got a few things I'm only planning on doing if I get a few bucks in donations, but they're mostly extras and I'll just keep doing other stuff otherwise.
>>136092032
Why do his pants fall down though.
I'm looking a translator for Hiniiru
>>136092187
He's a yakuza, his pants are gonna be loose no matter what the circumstances are.
>>136092120
That is exactly what he does. Except, it's more than just holding back releases - he doesn't even translate the chapters until he gets paid.
>I can understand him just not wanting to pay for raws himself though.
He doesn't buy the raws, he gets them off these shady raw sites that are mostly pornography/hentai.
>>136092452
Okay then, by all means steal it.
In my case I'm paying for magazine raws for a series but the new volume just came out and it has some extras in it. I'm willing to play around a bit to keep getting the magazines, but I'm not buying the volumes with my own money so I'll just do the extras if someone donates, no big deal either way.
>>136077917
>Scanlation thread
>What are you working on & What are you planning to work on?
That new idolmaster cg manga. I only have the raw thought.
>What do you need help with?
May be someone to buy raws together? EMS isn't something you can use every month.
>>136092757
Try looking for groups that already buy it and split it with them. What magazine?
>>136092718
>Okay then, by all means steal it.
I'm *looking* for someone to steal it/help steal it. Literally every single group that has ever worked on the Baki series has demanded either payment or donations for releases, and I really believe that needs to stop. There must be someone out there willing to contribute freely for the love of the series, or to spite SpinyBack, or whatever motives one might have.
>>136091909
What do you need help with?
What is a case where one would need to redraw?
>>136092883
Comic Rex. I will have to check if this month is still limited to paper or not.
>>136093437
I've never done it before and just wondering. I plan on doing the microwave way. Do the pages just come apart after that, and should I be cleaning the glue off it somehow? There just doesn't seem to be any detailed guides that I can find about it.
>>136093528
see
>>136089827
when the text is overlayed directly onto a drawing it looks much better to redraw the section where it is
>>136093631
Rex gets a delayed digital release.
>>136093528
>>136093658
That looks hard, I'm no artist.
How the hell do people redraw so well?
>>136093652
How about you pick a hair dryer and use it to melt glue? It would be easier to control the heat then a microwave.
>>136093674
I recalled it will release on the same time on this month, but may be it is just me.
>>136077917
The mangaka that did Princess Resurrection is starting a new manga monthly shonen Sirius magazine, It would be nice if someone picks it up
>>136093652
Ive used a heat gun to debind a tank. Its kind of like the hairdryer method on steroids. It heats the glue up in seconds and you dont have to worry about the book burning like you do with the microwave.
>>136088443
How can you redraw color page proprely?
Trying to steal Saiki Kusuo from SpinyBack. I just need to find some good raws besides the one the blogspot site.
>>136093703
You dont really have to know how to draw well. If you can you hide most of it with text and fill in whats left over. You can infer whats supposed to be there by looking at whats already there. Also use the clone stamp tool lots.
>>136093970
Wow. Nicely done. Would you mind trying to finish that page, please? That's all I can ask of you.
>>136093992
Hahaha, yeah, he's pretty pissed about that. I'll go check his sites and see if there's any raws for it.
>>136093992
Just use the volumes instead of the magazines, you'll save time and it'll look much better. Thanks for stealing it, I've been wanting to read it for a while.
>>136093992
Thank you.
>>136094299
It is nice to have translation ahead before volume release thought.
>>136093992
What's the Japanese for the series title? Fairly certain it's on these sites, just not listed in English.
>>136094299
Where can I find them? I'd buy them but I don't have the funds for all that.
>>136094208
Why is he pissed? Please do.
>>136094435
斉木楠雄のΨ難
>>136094540
Don't think any of them are scanned, but if you're somehow able to convince people to donate by releasing a bunch of chapters, you can get ebook rips for about $3 each.
>>136080446
If you spam the raws, you can guarantee at least 1 reader, like the Untranslated Storytimes
>>136094540
Nope, can't find them. Weird. They should be out there somewhere. If I find a lead, I'll drop in here to let you know. In the meantime, it'd be nice to know if there's any group whatsoever interested in working on Baki. Series 2 and 3 have long been completed - the only projects that are still ongoing (in the main series and in terms of scanlation) are Series 1 - which is halfway through - and the new series, Baki Dou, which is currently 20 chapters short from being up-to-date.
Spiny is releasing one chapter of Series 1 per week(generally someone pussies out and pays him). That's a ludicrous amount of time wasted when it takes him about 15 minutes to translate a chapter, an hour or two for the cleaner, and 15 minutes for me to play with the text/typesetting. At this rate, the original series will be completed in like 5 years. I really don't want things to have to come to that.
>>136094435
Are these the normal sites or some secret Chinese ones with magazines and shit? I haven't seen any of the volumes scanned.
>>136094791
It that a jump series? It might has been uploaded.
>>136080446
80 days really isnt that long. If you are looking to pick it up at least do it to the quality that they are doing it.
>>136094982
I wouldn't know if they're normal or not but as I said, they're plastered in pornography and crap, with the occasional legitimate raw manga upload sneaked in between hentai releases.
Captcha - none of these things are patios. None of them.
>>136095256
Ah, okay. Was just wondering if they had any magazines that aren't scanned in public, I've been trying to find raws for a oneshot in the new Manga Time Kirara Max.
>>136095319
Spiny himself does have *some* source that he won't disclose that gets him certain raws if good ones aren't publicly available. Fairly certain it's just some person he knows irl in Japan, but there's been some extremely obscurant things he's said that make me doubt myself there.
