So anyway, before I start you should all know I am a graphics junkie. I do everything from digital painting to photo manipulations to image enhancements and all that jazz. Now, I take pride in what I've managed to teach myself on Photoshop seeing most people my age (and with my interests) only know how to use Hue and Saturation and install fancy brushes/fonts that they stamp all over images.
I recently became part of a manga (manGa Kavi, not manGGa) scanlation group (Hack The Mainstream), and my job in the project is manga editor (to clean, align,level the scans and then insert the new text in speech bubbles & SFX). So anyway, I was working on a few pieces the other day and when I was done, I realized the quality was crappy.
This shit was especially bananas seeing that they were high quality scans, and I only had the problem after resizing.
And as you can imagine, I was all like WTFFFFFFFFF?!!?!?!? especially since I had been working on the damn thing the whole day.
I sent it in anyway, and was provided samples of the finished product only to realize the quality was so much better than mine. That shit was BANANA's man!!
And I continued to fiddle with the leveling (thinking it was the problem) but knew that leveling had nothing to do with it seeing that it only controlled brightness, contrast and tonal adjustments. The problem was the screentones ( the shading techniques used in manga) were posterizing when it was supposed to look like one continous gray tone.
And then, suddenly it hit me.
RESOLUTION!
Can you believe? I was trying to work a 750 px (width) PNG-8 Adaptive (17 colors only, black and white after all) on 302 dpi. WTF???!?!?!? That shit was BANANAS!!
After that I quickly fixed the problem.
And believe it or not, my work was better than the sampling provided, especially on the smily page (below).
I told you I was good. :)
As you can imagine, I felt like smashing my head in because that shit was BASIC bananas that I should have remembered. Actually I did think about it before I began but completely forgot after. Then it was relatively smooth sailing from there.
And then I remembered another magic tool I almost completely forgot.
Thank god for my father's laptop and my magic tablet :).
Wacom Intuos 2 Platinum Edition
And before any of you complain its not the latest, why don't you shell out 2000 ringgit for a 6 by 8. So as you can see, when it comes to these graphics stuff I'm extremely obsessive and go crazy over it. And yes, I do like manga (NOT manGGa Kavi), lol. That's all for now, until my next cerebral spasm. P/S :  |
At 2:36 PM,
hahhahahhaha lali i love you too!!
(errm..lets keep the KABEE thing between you and me laaaa!!)
btw nice post wei..it got me laughing and i can SO imagine you saying those things and cursing and stuff..
well good to see you've got something to keep you going..
take care and i love youuuu!!
have you started driving btw? and can you please top up your phone so that i can replies to my smses
At 2:37 PM,
so that i can get*
At 8:44 PM,
cool , to think i've been nicely reading scanlations without realising how much trouble it is. Thanks lali for giving us nice scanlations .. now go translate some nice hentai dojinshi :P
At 8:52 PM,
Quote :
" Now, I take pride in what I've managed to teach myself on Photoshop seeing most people my age (and with my interests) only know how to use Hue and Saturation and install fancy brushes/fonts that they stamp all over images. "
Look Kavu , that is a dig at YOUR Flickr images ! Hahahah ..
At 9:33 PM,
hahahhahahaha!!
its okay la Lali knows how bad i am at art.. can't help it..
At 10:26 PM,
Its ok la Kavi, if you try you surely can.
Yes Warlock, praise your scanlaters! Its a very tedious and time consuming job. maybe when I edit my very first full length doujinshi I'll let you know, lol.
Didn't know there were Lunatics into manga though (even though it is hentai....) I read/scanlate shoujo, BL and yaoi(tasteful). The rest, meh....
At 9:13 AM,
WAIT.. i just noticed..
she said "seeing most people my age (WITH MY INTEREST)"..
hahaha gotcha!
MUAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHA!
okay erm..the point was i dont have the same interest so im off the hook..
yes im a genius! WOOHOO THIS SHIT IS PULEKEPOP WOOHOO
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