Scanlation thread. What are you working on this weekend, Sup Forums?

Scanlation thread. What are you working on this weekend, Sup Forums?

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Nothing, but I recently offered a friend to do some QC/Proofreading for his stuff

zawa zawa man

Which software do you guys use for scanning?
I'm on VueScan but I can't decide on the settings for gray images.
Stumped wheter to leave the color balance on none or go for neutral.
Usually the result seems better on neutral but isn't just some slight leveling compared to none?

Can you do mine as well my QC is being a lazy bastard.

Irfanview with no settings or filters applied + a mouse button macro to scan in one click while I watch anime.

Depends on what you're working on, I only really work on stuff I'm interested in/care about

Scanning this thing.

I heard Kohei Tanaka play the OP live once, just him, his voice and his concert piano

Shit was amazing

Windows fax and scan.

If you don't tell me what it is I can't say no to you you know

Is mangahelpers reliable?
As in, if I post my translation for a dead forgotten manga there will I still get help?

mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=7827

These things.

>Want to finish part 1 of Kaiji
>Find out that the series is actually already fully translated on madokami, even though MangaUpdates doesn't say anything about it, and that FKMTKrazy is working on a new version of it
>Want to finish first Bobobo series
>Newly updated today after two years of being inactive.

I keep getting fucked over.

.....maybe

You do have something interesting. I'd QC GJbu, shoot me a mail

[email protected]

>waiting for Mangadex to implement more basic features and fix multiple groups/multiple authors per series

if you're going to share an email publicly either use a disposable one or use a time limited private pastebin

They seem to care a lot more about readers than scanlators. It's going to be a while.

I'm just waiting for them to add comment sections for individual chapters, then I'll be satisfied.
>mfw one of my translations was first place on the 24hr ranking for a while

I'm not even going to check the site until several months have passed, the front page is a mess of old releases.

Same, I'm not even ashamed.

Thanks, I'll get back to you once I get back home.

Because it works and there's no fuss.

>more than one group working on something
There's really no need to involve so many people and such each other's dicks while you're at it.

Is there a way in Photoshop's JPEG Image Processor batch to supports different aspect ratios and still get the desired height? Normal pages get resized to the desired height just fine, but wide pictures such as volume covers get resized to a dimension smaller than what I put in the export option.

Nevermind, it's fixed if I just set the width to a ridiculous number like 5000. I'm presuming that it resizes to whatever dimension it hits first.

Working on a random new series that looked interesting instead of continuing the ones I'm supposed to be doing.

Is it ever acceptable to stretch an image, specifically for title pages and double spreads?
Lines in title pages that aren't making what should be right angles and patterns in double spreads that aren't lining up, regardless of rotation.
Feel free to call me a retarded faggot for not knowing, I guess.

Finally got the new scanner working. PNG results in 25.6mb while jpeg at 3mb. There doesn't seem to be any quality loss. Why do I remember color page in jpeg and black&white in png? Also this scanner has a lot of settings. i.imgur.com/uYsUgHN.png Should I just be leaving it all alone for the PS stage?

>Welcome to the El-Palacio!
>oh, finally someone decided to fini--
>it's reddit
>c46 - png, 896x1400
>c47-50 - jpg, RGB, 896x1400
>c51 - jpg, RGB, two first pages 896x1400, the rest 764x1200
Every time. Fuck reddit, they can't scanlate even if their life would depend on it.

JPG is compressed, raw scans are obviously going to have a smaller filesize. I usually scan in tif to preserve alpha channels for color pages and export as JPGs later when you're done editing/to let people read. Color pages compress better as JPG.

>I'm just waiting for them to add comment sections for individual chapters
And then what, comments for each page, or even for each panel, like on certain cancer? Fuck off.

Sometimes people want to read the comments section (for some reason) without being spoiled on future chapters if they're not caught up. Thankfully comments are in a different tab so I never have to look at them.

>Why do I remember color page in jpeg and black&white in png?
That's for the final export, when you're releasing.

Comments sections are cancer 99.9% of the time regardless of the scale, chapter or series.

That's true, which is why I avoid them. But if it's a user-requested feature, it'll probably be implemented. Seeing as how there's a giant feature request thread on reddit, that's how it goes.

8-bit Grayscale should be enough.
And as the others said, JPEG is always lossy, even at 100%.

Working on getting this series translated again

I'll scan in TIFF for the colored pages and maybe the b&w ones too when I have that kind of space lying around. 30mb x 1000 pages is a lot of space.
Thanks for reminding me.
Another question, how should I be naming my files? start with v01_c01_001 and just go through it? or v01_c01_cover then the rest of the pages? When c02 and just continuing the page number , or reset it back to c02_001? I just want to get everything right from the start since I'm scanning quite a few books at once.

Whatever you doing, you should stop it.

Save raw scans in tff. Save the scans you're working on in psd.
>There doesn't seem to be any quality loss.
There is and even at such resolution and even with 100% quality, jpg fuck up some/all screentones. Even more if it's not 100%.
>Why do I remember color page in jpeg and black&white in png?
That's for final
>photo mode
>reflective
>16-bit grayscale
heh
> Also this scanner has a lot of settings.
Take one scan and try to scan it with different settings and see what settings produce the best result, preferable when scan looks almost clean but without any detail loss. Better to find that one page with a lot of gradients, weak screentones and small details, or find 2-3 pages that have either of those. I'd say unsharp mask and dust removal will be useful.

Released a chapter last week and don't feel like doing anything now.

Just name them by their actual page number.

>Another question, how should I be naming my files? start with v01_c01_001 and just go through it?
Look at what page starts 001, and everything before it name as v01_000a, v01_000b etc. After that you can sort them in folders per volume/chapter.
>b-but I want chapter numbers in file name too!
Just rename them. den4b.com/products/renamer (you might want to search for non-jewish version, like 5.70, if you don't want to pay for "pro").

What keeps you motivated when scaning 100+ pages?

100 pages is nothing.

You're right, I just quit before I went in too deep. I'll figure out how to feed-scan my shit from now on.

ok, now try to start scanlating the gap in Capeta and the parts of the Major manga that aren't scanlated
you seem to be a good luck charm

Thanks, I guess it's time to make some room in my HD. Also I had to goto photo mode for the 8bit/16bit options to show up.
Quick crop and change dpi to 300, export as png, and got this file. Not bad?

Looks workable, though why would you save b/w page in RGB/png24 is beyond my understanding.
>change dpi to 300
In general, it's better to resize scan by height/width with no more than 75% step several times until you more or less close to your desired size, then resize to that size. I.e. you change your 6000px scan by 75% until it's something like 2000-2100, then resize it to 1600 (probably better using at the least one bicubic with gradients, but that depends on scan).
>export as png
Convert to grayscale, the use save for web and png8. Previous thread had nice discussion about it boards.Sup Forums.org/a/thread/168029321/

Also, some people having trouble typesetting some scans because those scans have high/low dpi. You can circumvent it by saving scan as png (usually using save for web, but export as png works too) then working on it instead of original, since it will automatically become 72 dpi.

Do Kemono already.

RGB preserves useful colour data, which can allow channel specific levelling since there's variation in pigment patterns

>RGB preserves anything after scan was scanned in grayscale
Right.
>channel specific levelling
Yeah, when people having trouble to even grasp concept of leveling/cleaning. And I would better to use select color range than fucking with channels.

You asked why someone would save raws as an rgb, that's one reason.

It's obviously not the case here or in scanlation in general.

well I thought it was a more interesting answer than that they just forgot to convert the colour profile

...

I'm scanning 600dpi TIFF file with 16-bit grayscale. The tip about resizing in 25% intervals is great. Read through the thread and I end up with this.

>Regardless, of you seeing them, plenty of private sites or irc channels sprung up. I bet the past hate posts against irc was due to people getting rejected for entry to private downloading/uploading channels and so they hate irc out of petty jealousy. I'm in a semi-private irc with hundreds of users and many uploaders and traders (but not all of them are on at the same time). Heck, even knowing which server our private channel is on is a big deal (we're not on Rzn or Ihwy). We even have a hub ftp to handle requests; peeps both upload replies and download others' replies as desired. Translators are there and many such items are not upped to panda since everyone knows better than to spoil paradise.

>Find a private FTP or private IRC channel to translate for. These private translations serve as interim translations for items that don't have a mainstream commissioned translator work upon them. Your skills, though limited, are still worth something. Interim translations are why almost every Linda release has been translated on one private FTP (it also has a private irc channel). Once you show some skills on IRC, you may get contacted by operators of private sites to come join them if they figure you are a reasonable person that won't break everyones' privacy. As for hate, the private channel I know doesn't have any; they are happy to see efforts being made. Another benefit is you get to see many scans that never make it onto sadpanda. I know some of the scans at the ftp were the raw source, but what made it onto panda, for example, was the 35MB version instead of the 260MB HQ version at the private FTP. So you'd have the HQ version to work with if you so chose.

Anyone knows what this guy was talking about and where to find such places? I have raws to contribute.

Nice. Though leveling it a bit (12, 1.06, 251 in indexed mode, 20, 1.1, 249 in grayscale) and additional optimization ( www67.zippyshare.com/v/5J6EEeRc/file.html use "for 2-16 colors" in this case) would give you pic related.

mangamura.se/

>another raw site
>everything is watermarked

why

The original img was without any leveling, just what came out of the scanner. Is it possible to skip from TIFF file to the 550kb file without first save for web as 8-png and then opening that file to level?

You weren't kidding kek.

Holy shit, simply incredible.

What is the fucking point?

Wonder how people can write this stuff and not realise how much of an ass they come across as.

Well, it's more or less possible, but you probably have to fuck with indexed mode, which I wouldn't recommend unless you really know what are you doing. This png also contains only 16 colors, while tiff will contain all colors (unless you fuck with indexed mode), so of course it will be bigger. Plus the more dirt in scan, the bigger size, and alpha channel also adds to the size. And difference in file system also is a thing.

Take your first scan for example.
1. If you save it as it is (with layers, LZW, RGBRGB, PC, zip) you'll get 6 MB file. PNG24 (save as) 2,5 MB, PNG24 (save for web) - 1.9 MB.
2. If you flatten image (or make layer into background), turn to grayscale and save (again LZW, RGBRGB, PC), you'll get 1,5 MB. PNG8 - 1,1 MB
3. If you turn it to grayscale, flatten image/background, level (20, 1.1, 245), and save as above, you will get 1 MB. PNG8 - 700 KB.

Audio books and music on headphones. Halfway through your fingers will be moving on their own.

I just realized the first chapter is called Episode 0 and the second chapter Episode 1. What a handy program you got there, thanks.

Nothing, gonna rest