cleaning manga

[lost unit]

thought i would have a go at cleaning manga took tips off loads of videos and sites even used topaz in photoshop maybe i could clean up the chapters if they get too bad.

[*Jess♥]

whatever tutorials you've been following are criminal.

how could they tell you to do such things that would destroy the beauty of the original drawings?

image>adjust>desaturate

image>adjust>levels

input levels :- 120 1.00 180

output levels :- 20 255

accept

that is the process for the image you presented.

that will give this outcome.

to adjust for different source images, you need to take the middle slider all the way down next to the dark point, then move the dark point to get rid of the worst 'noise'. then do the same for the light point. then set the midpoint back to 1.00

[lost unit]

i think i ruined it by trying to get rid of to much noise and tried to give it a much bolder look and i see that i have lost alot of the detail. I did use the Dodge and Burn tool abit for contrast and hi lights maybe i was a bit heavy didn't really know what standard i was looking for after look at different ones,

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

I think you need to be very careful with cleaning Guyver manga, what with all the halftones and stuff. Igf you overshoot it you lose a lot of the detail. I probably wouldn't take to using the dodge and burn tools on any manga page though, don't want to create highlights and shadows that aren't there.

[*Jess♥]

yeah, that isn't cleaning the page, that is editing the page.

IMO the only thing that would be permissible is to use the brush to paint out some of the more persistent background noise.

anyway, thanks for working on it and showing us

personally, I think the people who normally provide them do a stellar enough job.

have we ever really had a final scan that is not already cleaned?

the one that cannibal found this month, was that clean?

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

those were nice indeed, i think this is pretty much as good as it gets

though you could probably get away with filling in some of the blacks too.

although then it looks a bit inconsistent with the grays... hmm i'm going to try something in a bit.

while we're on this subject, how did you clean up that image of sho and aptom's disguise so quickly ryuki? do you run it through illustrator? or do you do it manually?

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

okay i can't be bothered to finish this because it really isn't fun but you guys get the idea.

[lost unit]

some pictures can be really hard to balance out like the example the one below. theres alot of noise in the picture . If you darken it too much you loose detail.

[*Jess♥]

some pictures can be really hard to balance out like the example the one below. theres alot of noise in the picture . If you darken it too much you loose detail.

yeah you're absolutely right. it is a challenge to get it right. in these situations you just have to judge it, watch the image closely while you're moving your sliders in the adjust levels dialogue. you have to make a compromise. it could be tempting to do some more extensive editing but then you compromise the integrity of the original image. with this kind of scan it is best just to make do with the best quality that we can get after adjusting the levels.

after all, our intention is to get people to buy the tankoubons.

bbdude,

that was not quick! it took a fair few hours to create that image. yes it was all manual work, I created all those lines and boundaries myself. it is not a cleanup. to paraphrase barcas, I think this one became my original.

it's best if I don't follow the lines exactly. If I tried to create a perfect copy, it would have taken a lot longer. if you were to compare it carefully you would see some deviations.

[*V Guyver]

Anyone ever used the replication tool? using it, you can copy the print pattern in the image in the intact session, just copy it over to some of the background noise and you can restore it. Because print pattern tends to be pixels made from the ink dot printing, it's tedious and virtually impossible to edit large sections, let alone without it becoming apparent. My old comic clean ups deserved ridicule on a few things, even though they were done with a lot of effort, luckily they turned out good enough. What I learned was that my efforts to clean up the original txt actually made the Kanji harder to read, though the art itself looked better.