Cleaning Cleaners' Compendium (Updated 4/26/06)

[nytrogyn]

i usually resize after

 

[shinwei]

Not sure if this question has been asked/answered.
When am I supposed to resize an image?
Is it before I do anything or after I've done everything?
Does it matter at all?

Always resize before typesetting but after cleaning. You don't want to resize when type layers are already out there, because then it'll give your text funny text size numbers and you'll have to redo it.

 

[delete]

Typesetting...does that include SFX?

 

[shinwei]

Typesetting...does that include SFX?

Yes.

 

[Believe]

This is great help, it's just so much work it's mind boggling.

Now I know why no one complains about MQ scans .

This is so much work for HQ! .

I suppose I'll have to do it once on one of my releases and just see how the audiences reaction goes :P.

Although, the scans I get are usually very clean and well cut ...not much redrawing...But now I'm just babling .

 

[holmes221]

nice tutorial..you have answered my doubt
Thank you

 

[libra_86930]

hey, this tutorial looks great but.......is it just me or are the pictures missing? help!!! I really need the pictures to understand what the tutorial says T_____T

 

[Allashandra]

Well the images in this tutorial were down for awhile. I am sorry about that. I asked Shinwei if he still had the images and could pass them on to me so I could host them since this is a valuable resource here at MH. He granted my request and sent me the images so I have fixed the links and all the images should be showing now as well the the ability to get the gris pattern from the link in this tutorial. So back to more learning from Shinwei's tutorial yay team!

 

[Baka Taichou]

wow! this is a really big tutorial and although I didn't read much of it (It's too late to even try) I got interested in it a lot! thank you for sharing! It'of great help (especially to me ^^)

 

[HeroXVII]

Wow, when Editing do you actually have to REDRAW the whole manga? Or do you scan it on your computer and edit it?

 

[kirios]

omg... this tuto.. is :cool

 

[locomotion]

is there any tut on colored pages
u don't see them very often but when u do how do u clean it
I know u can't leve on gray duh

 

[bycker89]

Gracias por el tuto
me servira de mucho ^^

 

[bigwater]

At the risk of posting in a old thread.

I just recently took a year off of school and got a job as a security officer, and as alot of you are probably thinking right now, yes it involves alot of wacthing tv and doing nothing for a long period of time, and since i am majorly bored over there, i decided to try editing manga while im over there, but alas i am a complete photoshop newbie and a few of the terms over here where over my knowledge,,for now... so i was wondering if a experience editor might want to tutor me one on one via msn.

if anybody might be interested in wasting time and swaring alot, send me a pm and i will answer soon after. thanks

 

[Prostyle]

I definitely want to see a tutorial, about the camera-shoted manga pages, where the Q is so awful and the color is not even close to white. You know your stuff very very well~
Bow to you sempai~

 

[DrPepperPro]

I definitely want to see a tutorial, about the camera-shoted manga pages, where the Q is so awful and the color is not even close to white. You know your stuff very very well~
Bow to you sempai~

I don't like making big tutorials but basically I'd do this:

make 2 copies of original page.
-Top one gets leveled so that the whites are good.
-The bottom one gets white leveld as much as it can be without hurting other stuff like gray textures or important lines.
-Blacks should be leveled like normal on both.
-Top layer gets a layer mask and make it all black, then use a white brush to fix the white areas. Stay out of any areas that are not supposed to be white, but smudge the white on the layer mask into it so it transitions nicely.
-After that it should basically looks like a good scan, except for the thing in the middle. Basically it's just like redrawing a normal 2 pager except that it's probably 2-4 times wider. The main difficulty is thatit's not clear as to what's supposed to go there.
-Use the severely darkened area as a guideline to redraw. Take textures from other areas and place them where they should be, and use brush/pen tool to draw in lines.
-If enough time is spent, he worst that can happen is it looks odd because the editor can't know exactly what was meant to go in such a large area.

I find that those scans usually have messed up textures overall. Replacing every texture on the page is possible, but it's really not worth it, even considering how not worth it is to fix what I mentioned above.

edit:
the first part I mentioned is for if there's lots of textures. If there's little of those though, it would be better to put the highly white leveled one on bottom with no layer mask, and then the less leveled one on top with a layer mask, and basically do the same thing but with the textured areas and other messed up stuff.

 

[[Ju-Ni]Vicissitude]

if anybody might be interested in wasting time and swaring alot, send me a pm and i will answer soon after. thanks

I'm not on MSN, but I'm on IRC and Skype, if you're interested.

 

[ncomputing]

image not show in post#1

 

[Zyki]

^ images dont show, someone ? please update them

 

[fatetastarossa]

amazing photoshop skill

thank you very much ^ ^