Comments on: Advanced Grays (Film Grain)

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:19:11 +0000

Redrawing and connecting a spread that has bad gutter shadows? Frankly, I don’t think any spread in the world is worth the time it will take to do that. If your black line in the middle isn’t too bad, then line up your two pages in the same window as best as possible. Make a duplicate of the layer (always work on a duplicate!!) and start cloning. The First Aid brush is good, too. Line art will probably be best if done with the pen tool if you can’t clone them. Maybe I’m just really cynical these days, but I rarely spend the time to redraw spreads anymore. It’s just not worth it, IMO, unless you have a deep-seated need to make it perfect. For Bride of the Water God, which has a billion patterns and grays, I usually just draw a white column or black column down the center that covers the edges of each page: http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Bride-of-the-Water-God/chiresakura/74/22

There was NO WAY I was going to redraw those roofs XD

By: Zartog

Zartog — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:11:13 +0000

ahh sorry posted in the wrong section.

By: Zartog

Zartog — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:10:43 +0000

hey, i was thinking, i really need some help in that how do i redraw/clean a double page? like if the page was somewhat badly scanned, not that it’s to gray but it has a black line in the middle and i’m supposed to remove that one how do i go about doing that ? you know from a bock were the pages “sink” in creating a black line. any help would be appreciated

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:44:59 +0000

Thank you thank you!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:20:11 +0000

Here is it again: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4984/picture172bu0.png

First I’d have to duplicate the image size (resize by 200 percent) – You will see why – using interpolation nearest neighbor in order to don’t mess up the image.

Then I did like this tutorial teach (copy the mottled gray background onto it’s own layer, and use the gaussian blur to vanish original texture).

So I’d increased some of contrast and applied color halftone filter (filter > pixelate > color halftone > max radius: 4, all channels: 45) If i don’t have duplicated image size, then the dots would have too big inrelation to original pattern.

And finally I’d resize the image to its initial size, and stroked the baloons borders to make it a little better.

PS: My English is poor. Sorry any error.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:42:28 +0000

LoL and I was concerned I’d posted something wrong…

Ok ok, now I’ll have to do it again, though.

Anyway don’t mind, now I can specify better what I’d

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:16:51 +0000

Somehow I think I managed to delete your original comment… would you mind posting it again? Sorry :(

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:54:43 +0000

Oh I like that. I like that a lot! I’ll run it past the boss since I know we try to keep all our grays as uniform as possible, but it’s definitely something we’ll play with in the future! Thanks for the tip!