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[Unnnqualified]

Hello!!!

 

I'm new here, but I've been lurking for quite a while and I always see scanlation groups trying to recruit. I wanted to help them out. I mean, I want to do much more since everyone is working so hard but I can't donate or do anything like that because I have no means to... I can't actually translate or anything either, but I'm learning Photoshop and I figured maybe I could learn how to edit/clean manga scans??

 

I can't help w/o fitting the requirements, tho!! If anyone sees this and could give me advice or any good tutorials or guides or resources or anything that would help a lot!! I am very lost as to how to begin. I'd also need scans to practice on (where do you get those?) and I need to be more informed about my actions... I'm hoping one day maybe I could join a scanlation group myself?? :,0

 

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!! ;v;

 

 

(PS: Am I posting this in the right section?? I'm sorry I hope this is okay - what do I tag this topic?? ;-; )

[Saiko Scans]

Well, you can use these sources to learn and practice more on cleaning and re-drawing etc. :

 

http://www.insidescanlation.com/etc/The-Idiots-Guide-to-Editing-Manga/guide/main.html

http://www.deathsvertigo.com/dp_scanlations/tutorials/cleaning.php

 

These should be enough for the in-depth illustrations. Good luck!

Edited by Saiko Scans, 12 October 2016 - 03:03 AM.

[svines85]

The Futari wa Pretty Anon / Anon Black stuff is the only one I can personally say is good, but you could check the rest too

 

http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/anonblacks-typesetting-guide/

 

http://www.insidescanlation.com/etc/How-to-edit-manga-with-Photoshop/rawr/editguide/1.html

 

http://www.insidescanlation.com/backgrounds/guides.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwMbwcAlL-s

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsgYK-SaYw

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvktxkDvUq4

[Unnnqualified]

Aaa!! Thank you so much for replying!! I will check these out asap!!!

[sjoe]

I can't help w/o fitting the requirements, tho!! If anyone sees this and could give me advice or any good tutorials or guides or resources or anything that would help a lot!! I am very lost as to how to begin. I'd also need scans to practice on (where do you get those?) and I need to be more informed about my actions... I'm hoping one day maybe I could join a scanlation group myself?? :,0

I'm sorry, I don't have any guides for you which are different from the ones posted above, but here's my two cents: I was in a similar situation last year. I looked up some guides online -- the very insidescanlations guide which svines85 posted (which is somewhat old but still fairly relevant), and just tried cleaning some stuff on my own. As for finding scans to practice on, some groups upload their tests on their websites, so you could play around a little with those. And then you could, like me, join a group which is working on manga which interest you, and is willing to recruit people without experience -- a lot of them are (well I wasn't completely new to Photoshop when I joined, but I learnt a fair bit about cleaning from the group I'd joined).

 

Don't know much about typesetting, but cleaning and especially redrawing take up a lot of time, so make sure you're going to be free before committing to it. Good luck.

Edited by sjoe, 12 October 2016 - 04:59 AM.