Comments on: Intro to Leveling

By: Hana

Hana — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:45 +0000

omg..why do such helpful people like u exist?

thanks for ur hard work and teachings!

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:21:32 +0000

Honestly, I don’t have much experience with color pages. The few that i have done for Bleach involved basic leveling and using a Surface Blur (or Smart Blur, depending on which version of PS you have). Other than that, color pages usually don’t need as much love as grayscale pages (I think they are printed on better paper with better ink.)

By: Happy

Happy — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:18:20 +0000

This is a bit out off topic, but can you make a guide on how to work with & scanlate the colour pages of a manga.

This site is very helpful in learning about scanlating of a B&W scans, but it doesn’t cover much about colour scans.

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:57:08 +0000

I’m of the philosophy that cleaners shouldn’t spend a lot of time cleaning gutters. Maybe I’m just getting old and cynical, but the amount of time it takes to do a perfect gutter redraw compared to how much readers even notice… Anyway, usually what I’ll do for gutters is brush over the easy part in white. That can usually clean up a lot. Then I set the Dodge Tool to Highlights, and I dodge where possible. This can get tricky because if you lean too hard on the Dodge Tool, your line art becomes jagged and ugly. I leave grays in the gutter alone because it takes too much time to fix them. Sorry I can’t be more help, but I don’t think there’s a quick and easy way to make them perfect :-/

By: randomness1189

randomness1189 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:50:21 +0000

kinda off topic, but what method would you recommend for getting rid of gutter shadows?

By: ak47player

ak47player — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:11:43 +0000

For a page that has a lot of bars on the left side where is the precise position to slide the black triangle because I happened to stumble upon a page where on the left side the bars start fully from top then its kinda curve down to the bottom.

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:24:19 +0000

I’m still using Photoshop CS because it’s actually a legal copy \o/

You could use any version from CS to CS4, but I know PS7 is missing some filters that are commonly used.

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:23:37 +0000

I’m not sure what a dojinshi circle is, but photoshop and a tablet is all I use. I know plenty of people who use a mouse just fine, too ;)

By: KuroiNamida

KuroiNamida — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:53:55 +0000

And do you know what the basic things you need to have if you’re editing manga for a dojinshi circle are? Just photoshop or for instance also a tablet…?

By: KuroiNamida

KuroiNamida — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:31:33 +0000

May i ask what kind of photoshop you use? I’m a beginner and i would like to learn, but i don’t know what type of photoshop is the best..