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Fonts for Typesetting 3 May 2009 | 05:57 am
Using a good font is a vital part of typesetting. Who cares what the text says if you can’t read the damn letters? Blambot offers a lot of good manga fonts for dialogue that are also very legible (li...
Intro to Typesetting 2 May 2009 | 05:27 pm
Phew. I’ve been meaning to do this for over a year now >_> Typesetting is an extremely important part of editing manga because one of the things readers focus on most is the text. It doesn’t matter h...
Redrawing Speedlines 29 Jun 2008 | 04:20 pm
Lately, the cleaners at M7 have been doing beautiful speedlines with nice pointy tips, so I picked some of their brains about how they were doing it. This is a compilation of different ways to get ni...
Photoshop Patterns and Brushes 14 Jun 2008 | 03:26 pm
Here’s a good site with lots of manga-esque patterns and brushes to download. There are lots of dot screen tones, lines, plaids, etc. There are also a lot of fun brushes too: feathers, clouds, speech ...
Redrawing Cross Hatching 8 Jun 2008 | 05:08 pm
Here is another great tutorial by anifanatical. I meant to post this a while ago, but it completely slipped my mind until now. This will be of most interest to HQ cleaners who do a lot of redrawing, b...
Intro to Layers 15 Apr 2008 | 10:34 am
One of the most important things to keep in mind when cleaning is LAYERS. Every cleaner has a different method for managing layers, but as long as you keep them well labeled, you can never have too ma...
Saving as a PNG 4 Apr 2008 | 09:10 am
I’ve been cruising around looking for new series lately, and I always choke when I go to download a volume and the zip is something like 100 MB. Are you serious?! We’re talking about grayscale images ...
Debinding Books 6 Mar 2008 | 06:32 pm
I found this video tutorial about how to debind books. The guy uses a hairdryer, which I think is a LOT safer than an iron or the microwave. I’ve heard stories of books catching on fire in the microwa...
Advanced Grays (Gradient Overlay) 2 Mar 2008 | 04:16 pm
I talked about how to make a gradient in the Gray Film Grain tutorial, but this will address a different method from what’s used there. Sometimes, using a film grain by itself isn’t good enough becaus...
Intro to the Clone Stamp Tool 21 Feb 2008 | 04:45 pm
The Clone Tool is important for doing redraws. Even if you’re doing LQ/MQ cleaning, you will still occasionally come across areas that need to be redrawn. When the area that needs to be redrawn is a g...
